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Goals: There are different kinds of textual genres read, written and interpreted in school. This is to improve students' literacy skills and prepare them to operate with all kinds of genres. The genre that the students often are the most familiar with is a narrative. Lots of narratives are written in school hence a teacher often evaluates and gives feedback on them. Evaluation and feedback are not always easy tasks which is why it is important to develop pedagogic tools that offer help in this area. The purpose of this master's thesis was to create a feedback model for analyzing the overall structure of narratives and the complexity of storytelling. The first goal, however, was to find out what kind of a genre a narrative is according to a fifth grader's sense of genre. Secondly, the aim was to examine how does the complexity of storytelling appear in the narratives written by the fifth graders since the complexity of storytelling has a relation to the overall improvement of storytelling skills. The theoretic framework of this thesis is related to the research on genre, on writing and also on narratives. Methods: The data of the thesis consisted of 47 written narratives. The data was collected in two different classes in a project called Rohkaisukeskeinen kirjoittamisinterventio in 2011. This qualitative study utilized features from several research traditions including design-based research, systemic functional linguistics and qualitative content analysis. Results and conclusions: Following phases were found in the narratives: orientation, initiating event, sequent events, resolution and evaluation and dialogue. According to the fifth graders' sense of genre it seems that these phases are essential in a narrative. In the analysis both temporal and causal connections of the narratives were studied in order to examine the complexity of storytelling. Also attention was paid to the implications of reaching a goal. The narratives were classified into scale from 1 to 7 in which the level 7 means that the storytelling is the most complex. On the level 4 there were 12 narratives. On the levels 5, 6 and 7 there were 22 stories altogether and on the levels from 1 to 3 altogether 13. The findings indicate that implying goal direction has stronger influence on the complexity than causal or temporal connections. The length of the story does not seem to be unambiguous factor when it comes to the complexity of storytelling. The feedback model for analyzing narratives presented is based both on the analysis and the previous research.