ELA21.5.34
Write personal or fictional narratives incorporating literary elements (characters, plot, setting, conflict), dialogue, strong voice, and clear event sequences.
Write personal or fictional narratives incorporating literary elements (characters, plot, setting, conflict), dialogue, strong voice, and clear event sequences.
Unpacked Content
UP:ELA21.5.34
Vocabulary
- Personal narratives
- Fictional narratives
- Literary elements
- Characters
- Plot
- Setting
- Conflict
- Dialogue
- Voice
- Event sequences
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 plot events in a logical order (beginning, middle, end).
- Narrative writing includes text elements, like characters, setting, and conflict.
- Dialogue is a conversation between two or more characters in a text.
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 plot events.
- Incorporate literary elements into their narrative writing, like characters, setting, and conflict.
- Include dialogue in narrative writing.
- Use a strong voice in writing by developing a personal writing style.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Narrative writing includes predictable elements, like a logical sequence of events and characters, setting, and conflict.
- Incorporating dialogue between the characters can add details to their narrative writing.
- Narrative writing can be used to tell about something that happened to them personally or it can tell a story they made up.
