Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: 4th Grade Narrative Writing Rubric [Pdf]
A rubric to use when writing and evaluating a 4th-grade narrative. Essays can receive anywhere from one to four points in each of the following areas: Organization/Progression, Development of Ideas, and Use of Language/Conventions.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Revise a Narrative
In writing a narrative, revise your content and ideas to ensure our work is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Chapter Book Writing Lesson: Creating a Parallel World
Inspired by the opening events in The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman, students are asked to create an original parallel world that is similar to ours but different in certain ways. They will focus on the similarities and differences...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Camping Sentences
In this instructional activity, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this instructional activity. When I Go Camping with Grandma, a book by Marion Dane Bauer, is used as the mentor text of...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: How to Write a Personal Narrative (English 7 Writing)
[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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing: How to Write a Personal Narrative
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Write a Personal Narrative
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.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Testing
Let students write in response to these narrative images. You can also engage them in discussions about what is interesting in each picture or how the characters feel.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Narrative Paragraphs
Students learn to use a one-main idea Think-sheet for producing a narrative paragraph. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An Onomatopoetic Field Trip
In this lesson, students will develop a story incorporating onomatopoeia and strong word choice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Alliterative Insects
In this lesson students develop a story about an insect while utilizing previously written sentences with strong word choice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Literature Inspired Writing Lesson: I Never Knew That!
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem discover that their seemingly "feeble" father has an astonishing ability with a rifle. For this assignment, writers will compose a letter to a parent or loved one, asking for a return letter that...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Unique Metaphor Collections
In this lesson, the first chapter of the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring is used as a mentor text. Students will identify metaphors and then create their own unique metaphorical descriptions that they will begin to collect in their...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Common Application for Undergraduate College Admission
SCU uses StoryCorps' tested interviewing techniques-combined with outstanding radio broadcasts and animated shorts-to support high school students in the development of identity and in drawing connections between their unique strengths...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Leopold Ranke
A German historian, frequently considered the founder of "scientific" history. Ranke set the tone for much of later historical writing, introducing such ideas as reliance on primary sources, an emphasis on narrative history and...