Story Beats

In writing we have been using story beats to help us plan our writing. Story beats are the main parts of the story that help set up how the story is going to work. We had four pictures to choose from to make a story using the story beats. When we have used the story beats to plan our writing, we  wrote out the main parts of the story and just added more detail in between beats. Here is an example my group made to help us write our own writing. 

We used this photo to base our story on then we started using  the story beats.

Once upon a time...	There was a black murky shadow who lived in the darkness and loved his son
Every day….	They would go on adventures during the night, exploring woods and abandoned houses and the shadow would tell his son do not leave my side or go wandering off because you do not know what could happen or who you  could run into.
Until one day...	As they were exploring an abandoned house, his son walked off into a different room and the wind blew the door locked
Because of that...	The murky shadow tried  to open the door every night to rescue his son.
Because of that...	He was seen by a person, who got scared, dropped their keys and ran away
Because of that...	The shadow was able to unlock the door
Until finally...	He got his son out of the room
And ever since then….	they stick together and stop going into abandoned house
The moral of the story is...	Stick with your family