Introduce: Personal Narrative

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

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.

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.

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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FreeReading

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