Portal Story - Writing - Text Analysis

When getting children to write, it is important (if not critical) to give them a high-quality text that the children can:

pull vocabulary from
study setting/character descriptions
get a sense of mood
learn about suspense
etc.

With this text analysis, I have written a 3 page document which shows children an amazing example of writing. This story fulfills many different requirements. It could be used:

• to show suspense writing
• to show how characters overcome a monster
• to set up a twist ending
• to show rich descriptions and details
• to show settings/character descriptions
• to show rich vocabulary
• to show depth of characters
• etc

This story is based off of Pan’s Labyrinth. Does Ofelia escape the pale man? Does she make it back through the portal before the last grain of sand falls? Of course she does. Let’s not traumatise the children… But is everything as it seems?

Seriously, each year I read this Text Analysis to the children, I receive applause. The children love stories and this provides the children with a solid example of high-quality writing for a purpose.

INCLUDED:
1 PDF for the children (3 pages)