ELA21.4.35
Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical plot, transitional words and phrases, sensory details, and dialogue, and providing a sense of closure.
Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical plot, transitional words and phrases, sensory details, and dialogue, and providing a sense of closure.
UP:ELA21.4.35
Vocabulary
- Personal narratives
- Fictional narratives
- Logical plot
- Transitional words and phrases
- Sensory details
- Dialogue
- Closure
Knowledge
Students know:
- A narrative is a piece of writing that tells a story.
- A personal narrative tells about an event that was personally experienced by the author, while a fictional narrative tells a made up story.
- A narrative story describes a sequence of events in a logical order (beginning, middle, end) and provides a sense of closure as an ending.
- Narrative transitions indicate when and where the story is occurring.
- Sensory details use descriptions of the five senses.
- Dialogue is a conversation between two or more people.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Write a personal narrative that recalls a personal experience or a fictional narrative with a made-up story.
- Write a narrative with a logical sequence of events and sensory details.
- Use appropriate transitional words and phrases in narrative writing.
- Include dialogue in narrative writing.
- Write a narrative that ends with a sense of closure.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Narrative writing includes predictable elements, like a logical sequence of events and an ending that provides the reader with a sense of closure.
- Because narrative writing describes a chronological sequence of events, it includes transitions that indicate the time and place in which the story is occurring.
- Narrative writing can be used to tell about something that happened to them personally or it can tell a story they made up.
