Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Introduce: Personal Narrative

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

1, 2

Overview

In this lesson plan, students will be introduced to a personal narrative. They will read an example of a personal narrative. The students will learn the elements of a personal narrative and its purpose. 

    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

    ELA21.1.34

    With prompting and support, write a narrative that recounts two or more appropriately sequenced events using transitions, incorporating relevant details, and providing a sense of closure.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.1.34

    Vocabulary

    • Narrative
    • Appropriately sequenced events
    • Transitions
    • Relevant details
    • Sense of closure
    • Prompting
    • Support

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Narrative text describes a story in a series of events.
    • Events in a narrative are sequenced using transition words.
    • Narrative writing should include relevant details.
    • Narrative writing should end with a sense of closure.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    With prompting and support,
    • Write a narrative that recounts two or more appropriately sequenced events.
    • Use transition words in a narrative story.
    • Incorporate relevant details in a narrative story.
    • Provide a sense of closure when ending a narrative story.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • A narrative writing describes a sequence of events, uses transition words to show the chronological order of events, incorporates relevant details that are important to understand the story, and ends by providing the reader with a sense of closure.
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

    ELA21.2.40

    Write a personal or fictional narrative using a logical sequence of events, including details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings and providing a sense of closure.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.2.40

    Vocabulary

    • Personal narrative
    • Fictional narrative
    • Logical
    • Sequence of events
    • Details
    • Actions
    • Thoughts
    • Feelings
    • Closure

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • A narrative is a piece of writing that tells a story.
    • A narrative story describes a sequence of events in a logical order (beginning, middle, end).
    • A narrative story describes the actions, thoughts, and feelings of the characters.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Write a personal narrative that recalls a personal experience or write a fictional narrative with a made-up story.
    • Write a narrative with a logical sequence of events and provide details that describe how the character feels, acts, and thinks.
    • 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.
    • Narrative writing can be used to tell about something that happened to them personally or it can tell a story they made up.
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