Personal Narrative Writing Unit | Writing Workshop | Print and Digital

This comprehensive unit addresses all of the narrative writing standards for the Common Core Standards, as well as most state standards! A PDF version is included, as well as a link for Google Slides. This means this product is also ready for Google Classroom and other digital platforms!

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This 6-week unit is broken down to day-by-day lessons. Each lesson contains detailed directions for a mini lesson, independent work time, and share time (closing) for teaching a personal narrative. There is also an additional handout or guided practice activity for each of the lessons.

You'll also find rubrics, a monthly layout, suggested mentor texts, grammar integration with mentor sentences, and more!

Lessons Include:

Day 1-What Can I Write About?

Day 2-What is a Personal Narrative

Day 3-Using a Graphic Organizer

Day 4-Writing About a Small Moment in Time

Day 5-Adding an Emotional Hook

6-Writing With a Strong Lead

7-Writing With a Strong Lead

8-Writing With a Strong Lead

9-Writing With a Strong Lead

10-Show Don’t Tell

11-Paint a Word Picture

12-Adding a Satisfying Ending

13-Adding a Satisfying Ending

14-Adding a Satisfying Ending

15-Adding a Satisfying Ending

16-Adding Transition Words

17-Avoid the “It Monster”

18-Strong Verbs

19-Specific Nouns

20-How to Include Dialogue

21-Stretch Your Sentences

22-Performing Surgery

23-Revision Checklist

24-Revision Checklist Part 2

25-Editing Checklists

26-Rewriting Your Narrative

27-Illustrating Your Narrative

28-Choosing Your Title

29-Parts of a Published Book

30-Author’s Celebration

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