Throughout 10 lessons, fourth graders learn how to plan, organize, write, and edit their own personal narratives. In the beginning, young writers come up with ideas of personal experiences and the emotions linked with those experiences. Once chosen, pupils organize their thoughts in a plot diagram and story frame in order to set up the writing process. Finally, they draft the personal narrative and revise it before creating the final draft.

Concepts

narrative essays, personal narrative writing, personal narratives

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have learners peer edit after they edit their own papers for a second eye

Classroom Considerations

• Unit contains 10 lessons for writing personal narratives
• Each lesson builds off the other in order to create the final written product

Pros

• Common Core designed
• Provides sequential lessons in order to create a high-quality personal narrative essay

Cons

• None

Common Core

W.4.3.a W.4.4 W.4.5 W.4.6 W.4.8 W.4.10 L.4.2.a L.4.3.a L.4.6