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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Revise a Narrative

For Students 9th
In writing a narrative, revise your content and ideas to ensure our work is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Bizarre Foods With Ralph Fletcher: A Narrative Revision Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this activity, Ralph Fletcher's writing style is introduced to student writers. Students will write a rough draft about a time they ate, or a time when they saw someone else eat, something unusual. Then students will read and analyze...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing: How to Write a Personal Narrative

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A learning module that teaches students how to write a personal narrative with five mini-lessons: Introduction, Consider a Slice of Your Life, FOCUS!, Develop Your Central Idea, and Wrap Up and Springboard to Writing.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write a Personal Narrative

For Students 7th - 9th
A learning module that teaches students how to write a personal narrative in six lessons: Introduction, Focusing on Your Topic, Narrowing Your Focus, Developing Your Central Idea-The Nitty Gritty, Writing Your Narrative, and Your Turn.
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Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to write a personal narrative with five mini-lessons: Introduction, The Plan, The Hook/Introduction, The Body/The Story, and The...
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Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write a personal narrative that has a clearly defined focus and communicates the importance of or reasons for actions and/or consequences.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write a Personal Narrative

For Students 7th - 8th
You will learn how to write a personal narrative that has a defined focus and includes reflections about decisions, actions, and/or consequences.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write a Short Story: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that gives students practice writing a short story in four lessons: Introduction; Before Writing-Brainstorm, Brainstorm, Brainstorm; Writing Prompts; Point of View; and Quick Tips for Writing a Timed Response.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing a Short Story With Well Developed Conflict and Resolution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about writing a short story in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Understanding the Essence, Getting an Idea, Structuring Plot, Building Conflict, and Outlining Your Own Story.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing a Short Story With Interesting and Believable Characters

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about writing a short story with believable characters in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Imagine 3-D Characters, Show and Tell, Build Your Main Character Read about a Main Character, and Draft...
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Change the View: Retell a Narrative Through Different Eyes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read a short story by Kate Chopin titled "The Story of an Hour." Review the elements of a narrative and the point of view of the narrator. Then, create the final product of the module, a narrative written from a different point of view.
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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] In this lesson, you will learn how to write an essay that has only one purpose: to tell a story about you. It's called a personal narrative, personal because it is all about...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the lesson, groups of students will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will include details...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing Narratives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes, a PowerPoint presentation, two videos, a song, an exercise, and a game help students to understand how to write a narrative. Elements of a narrative as well as the use of figurative language and sensory images are introduced and...
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Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will write a personal narrative that has a clearly defined focus and communicates the importance of or reasons for actions and/or consequences.
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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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Suggestions for Writing a Memoir: Memoirs About Moving Away

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The book Leaving Home with a Pickle Jar by Barbara Dugan relives the story of moving from one state to another through the life of Ernest P. and his sister, Ella Jean. They take with them their most prized possessions; Ernest's being his...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Childhood Artifacts to Inspire a Narrative

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This site contains a book review of Knots in My Yo-yo String: the Autobiography of a Kid, which is a memoir by Jerry Spinelli. A suggested activity is included that asks students to bring in important mementos that the students will...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: And the Author Is...using Digital Tools for Writing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Empower students to recognize that they are thinkers and writers! They will collaborate on a writing piece to brainstorm, organize and publish ideas with a digital tool. This lesson highlights different website creations as examples of...
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Other

Study.com: How to Use Descriptive Details & Sensory Language in Your Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
When you write a narrative, you can draw your reader into your experiences by adding specific, concrete details and sensory language to your storytelling. This lesson tells you exactly how to do it. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory details,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing a Roundabout Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of organization. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight that authors' story structures can be imitated. Story...
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Other

Writing for Audio Theatre: Radio Drama Script Template

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Great site if you want to learn how to write a radio drama sketch. The site offers lots of examples and pointers for the beginner. W.9-10.3a Narrative Intro, W.11-12.3a Narratives
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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.
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Re:fiction: Making Ends Meet: How to Write a Good Ending to a Story

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This article from Re:Fiction magazine offers tips on different ways to end a piece of narrative writing.

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