The data was part of the project "Improving the comprehension of educational texts: the effect of narratives" and supported by the Sustainable Humanities program of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) [project number PGW.17.035]. The data gives insight into the prototypical narrative elements defined and used within the project, as well as gives an analytical model that helps to describe the variation in the degree of narrativity that can be found in current Dutch educational texts. The inventory and model have been reported in Sangers, N. L., Evers-Vermeul, J., Sanders, T. J. M., & Hoeken, H. (2020). Vivid elements in Dutch educational texts. Narrative Inquiry, 30(1), 185–209. https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.18090.san.