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This is a common question I receive because there are so many lessons. How long do these personal narrative lessons take? You can download them along with a free personal narrative prompts you can try in your classroom. I laminate them for students because we do a lot of narrative writing. We use these pieces in all narratives, so it’s helpful to have them to look back on. I give each student one with narrative transitions and one with dialogue tips so they can see examples of what to use in their writing. I love creating bookmarks for the students when teaching them how to write personal narratives.
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This leads us to a good revision because students can see what they are missing and need to add as they revise their writing.Īfter this, we can start editing and wrapping up the piece. I model this for the students in a sample piece of writing and have them do it in their writing.
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I have students take their rough drafts and label everything that we have done with the elements of personal narratives. Labeling elements is the most important part of the lesson. In the conclusion, we need to look at resolving everything and wrapping it up, along with including a reflection at the end. Then we follow the story outline and end by concluding the story. This is where we introduce everyone to the story and set the stage. The introduction is an excellent place to include setting and character development. However, properly introducing and concluding a story makes a big difference in writing. A lot of times, we think they are only skills that need to be taught in information writing. These are two areas that are usually missed in personal narrative writing. This is an awesome opportunity to teach about revision, improve student writing, and clarify areas where readers might be confused. If you notice students are missing a lot of what they brainstormed, have them revise their rough draft to include more of the character and setting development pieces. Always encourage students to use their brainstorming inside of the story outline and rough draft. This is where students add the character and setting development pieces. This gives students a guideline so they can keep everything in order.įrom that outline, we take them into writing the piece. From that outline, we’ll expand on it by teaching the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Story outlineĪfter spending time in character and setting development, we do a quick outline of their story. It’s important for students to describe what it looked like, sounded like, or tasted like. I always do setting development as a part of personal narrative lessons. Students won’t be able to write a really descriptive narrative if we don’t teach them how to develop the setting. Setting development is another area where students tend to assume the reader knows everything.
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This helps make the character development process easier. They also need to do this for other characters in the personal narrative.įor students in 2nd and 3rd who tend to struggle with personal narratives, I like to start with a prompt that naturally includes only the student and one or two others as characters. This results in them leaving out key details.įor personal narratives, students need to write down information about themselves that they will use in the story to develop their character. If we don’t teach students to develop their characters, even when writing about themselves, they assume their readers know everything. Character development isn’t only a part of creative narratives it’s also a part of personal narratives. It’s common for teachers to have students start writing after choosing a small moment, but that skips this important part of the writing process. This helps them choose a small moment that will work for the writing piece and be entertaining for the reader. The key piece to making this step of the writing process work is having students take their brainstorming and discuss it with a partner or group. I have them come up with a few ideas for small moments.įor example, if we use “meeting a friend” as a prompt, they come up with a few examples of when they met a friend. If I’m working with students on small moments for personal narrative writing, I use a graphic organizer. Small moments are a popular way to teach students to pick a tiny piece of the story to write about. I will share every lesson I do with my students to create amazing personal narrative writing pieces. If you teach 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade and are ready to take your students past the “small moments” lesson everyone uses when teaching how to write personal narratives, this is for you.