This PowerPoint Presentation provides 10 engaging lead ideas for fiction narrative writing, with accompanying examples. This clear and comprehensive direct instruction tool will help students craft their own leads when engaged in a Narrative Writing Unit and be able to distinguish between them as readers. Narrative Leads explained here include: (1) Action Lead, (2) Dialogue Lead, (3) Onomatopoeia Lead, (4) Snapshot Lead, (5) Flashback Lead, (6) Question Lead, (7) Reaction Lead, (8) Shock & S