Our Spicing Up a Story activity is the perfect choice for your students to demonstrate an understanding of how narrative authors use specific techniques to grab and maintain the reader's attention throughout the story.

To complete this task, students will improve a series of boring paragraphs, guided by the checklist at the bottom of the page. The techniques they will apply include:

• Narrative elements: time connectives, action-packed events and dialogue
• Descriptive language: adjectives, adverbs, action verbs and interesting vocabulary
• Figurative language: simile, metaphor and personification