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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writing a Personal Narrative [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A middle school student model of personal narrative writing. Includes a good writing style, examples, and very good notes and annotations as helpful aids for writing success. Points out the introduction, sequence of events and how they...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Second Grade Writing Lesson #1/ Narrative Prompt

For Teachers 2nd Standards
This instructional activity engages students in working with narrative reading and writing. Students will listen to different stories and fill out story maps for them. Then students will plan a personal narrative about a "surprise" on a...
Professional Doc
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Elements of Personal Narrative Texts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This resource presents instructional writing practices that support content-area learning, with specific strategies for teaching the thinking skills, processes, and knowledge needed to effectively write personal narrative texts. Some of...
Professional Doc
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Personal Narrative Texts: Drafting a Personal Narrative

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This resource presents instructional practices for modeling and teaching students how to draft a personal narrative.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: How to Write a Personal Narrative (English 7 Writing)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn prewriting strategies in order to write with a clearly defined focus for your narrative.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:ninth Grade Lit and Comp: Introduction to Personal Narrative

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on personal narratives including the characteristics of a personal narrative: tells a story, events are in chronological order, and it has characters, setting, and plot. Click next at the bottom...
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Personal Narrative Writing 3.w.3.3

For Students 3rd Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to images of notes, web sites, and videos that teach students how to write a personal narrative.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Second Grade Writing Lesson #2/Narrative Prompt

For Teachers 2nd Standards
This instructional activity engages students in listening to one or more narratives, Then students will engage in the writing process to develop their own personal narrative. Exemplar narratives are provided.
Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: High School Personal Narrative Example

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This two-page essay provides an example of a personal narrative (Click on View Printable Version). Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and...
Lesson Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching: Prewriting and Planning Personal Narratives

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity focuses on prewriting and planning a personal narrative. The information can be used in all types of writing. It discusses brainstorming ideas, narrowing the focus, and developing the central idea. W.9-10.5 Writing Process,...
Lesson Plan
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Lesson 50: Using Music to Teach Personal Narrative

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The personal narrative, apart from appearing as an option in the writing component of many state assessment tests, is a form of writing which allows students the chance to reflect seriously and honestly on important events in their own...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Narrative Writing Lesson: Here You Are

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Inspired by Carly Patterson's song, "Here I Am," students will write personal narratives, focusing on one to three experiences in their lives which have shaped them. After filling out a survey about themselves and discussing some of the...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring and Sharing Family Stories

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Need help with doing a descriptive paper or personal narrative? Need a writing lesson plan? Meet Virginia Hamilton and follow her step-by-step guide to writing. When done, you are eligible for a certificate signed by this author.
Primary
University of North Carolina

Unc: First Person Narratives of the American South

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A unique collection of first-person accounts, this concentrates on all the populations of the South, such as ex-slaves, enlisted men, middle-class women, displaced plantation owners. The works are sorted by the author's name. To search...
Unit Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Memoir Inspired by Three Truths and a Lie

For Teachers K - 1st
This is a book review and activity for the picture book "Three Truths and a Lie" by Carlalyn Buchner, a story about an older cousin who bullies his younger cousin with outrageous truths and lies. The activity suggests students write...
Unit Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Memories Sorted on a Timeline

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a book review for Marley and Me by John Grogan in which he details events, both good and bad, in his life with his dog Marley. The activity focuses on having students remember and write down experiences in their lives (both good...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Suggestions for Memoirs: A Letter & Memoir About a Teacher

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
After reading the book, Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Palacco, which is about a teacher helping a student overcome a long struggle to learn to read, learners write a personal thank you letter to a teacher who helped them. Then they...
Handout
Quia

Quia: Santa Barbara City College: Structure of a Personal Narrative Essay [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides two graphic organizers. The first graphic organizer provides all parts of a personal essay, of a college essay. The second graphic organizer serves as a planning tool for a student's personal essay. W.9-10.3,3a...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: All About Me Story

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This series of lessons engages students in autobiographical writing. Students will participate in pre-writing, drafting, and publishing stories about their lives.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Creating a Second Person Choice Story

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan is designed to help students understand plot dimensions and literary devices while writing a multi-faceted short story that has many possible outcomes. For inspiration, students will analyze songs that tell stories for...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling: Writers' Workshop

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Students draw on their understanding of different types of narratives to inspire and enrich their own storytelling. This is one of four storytelling lessons.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature Course Overview

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on providing an overview of contemporary literature and the writing process. It defines contemporary literature and the key terms of the writing process, and provides links to the Contemporary Literature and...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing About Life's Lessons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After reading A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park students complete a writing assignments. The writer first completes a graphic organizer about a life-changing experience or an experience from which a instructional activity has been...

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