Unpacked Content
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.
Vocabulary
- Personal narrative
- Fictional narrative
- Logical
- Sequence of events
- Details
- Actions
- Thoughts
- Feelings
- Closure
