Unit Plan

4th Grade Personal Narrative

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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.

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CCSS: Designed
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