Personal Narrative Writing Supplementary Resources

These personal narrative writing activities are designed to help your students focus on small moments and generate detailed compositions. Four learning activities help students solidify their understanding of what a small moment is, generate high-quality ideas for a variety of writing prompts, and begin writing using graphic organizers.   Designed to supplement your elementary personal narrative unit, these activities purposefully build your students skills for writing strong, focused personal narratives through scaffolding. This unit has been designed to include research-based practices that support learning including: Examples and non-examples Graphic Organizers Tiered assignments/tasks Included Activities Identifying Small Moments Concept Refinement Sorts: Students sort task cards in partners or as a group to help solidify what a small moment is and isn't. Building an Idea Bank: Guided graphic organizers allow students to move from sorting to generating their own ideas for pers