Personal Narrative Guided Writing Unit: Google Slides

Do your students struggle with narrative writing and writing quality pieces in general? From my experience with teaching writing and transforming students into writers, I always teach students how to write a personal narrative first. This gives students the opportunity to go through the entire writing process while writing about a topic that they know a lot about, whether it be about a special person, place, thing, or event. This writing unit guides students through the personal narrative writing process by giving example slides for each part and then a slide for students to try what was modeled. Kind of like an “I do” example and then a “You do” your turn. This is a great writing assignment for remote/distance learning. This unit is entirely in google slides. Just make a copy and share it with your students. In the notes section of each slide, there are directions as needed. On the “Your Turn” slides, students just need to add text in the text boxes that are already there. Confer with your students by sharing it with one another to view, edit, and comment. Students can confer with each other and engage in peer activities when they share their work with peers in just the same way. By the end of this unit, your students will have gone through the entire process and will have drafted and published a personal narrative.

What’s included:

•What is a Personal Narrative?

•Seed vs Watermelon

•Seed vs Watermelon Topic example

•Write About What Matters To You example

•Write About What Matters To You graphic organizer (your turn)

•Seed or Watermelon? Topics

•Seed or Watermelon? Topics (your turn)

•Focus On The Sees & Zoom In example

•Focus On The Seeds & Zoom In graphic organizer (your turn)

•Personal Narrative Planner example

•Personal Narrative Planner graphic organizer (your turn)

•Zoom in on Sensory Details example

•Zoom in On Sensory Details graphic organizer (your turn)

•Be a Storyteller Thoughts and feelings example

•Be a Storyteller graphic organizer (your turn)

•Be a Storyteller Dialogue example

•Be a Storyteller Dialogue graphic organizer (your turn)

•Dialogue Tags reference slide

•Good Stories Begin With a Strong Lead example

•Good Stories Begin With a Strong Lead graphic organizer –draft 2 leads (your turn)

•Zoom in On Beginning Details example

•Zoom in On Beginning Details graphic organizer (your turn)

•Zoom in On Middle Details example

•Zoom in On Middle Details graphic organizer (your turn)

•Everyone Loves a Good Ending- thought, feeling, or lesson example

•Zoom in On End Details example

•Zoom in On End Details graphic organizer- draft 2 endings (your turn)

•Zoom In On End Details graphic organizer (your turn)

•Personal Narrative Draft slides

•Title Tips reference slide and checklist

•Title Time activity (your turn)

•Title Time (your turn)

•Take a Closer Look activity

•Meeting Rider Personal Narrative example

•Take a Closer Look bonus activity

•Personal Narrative Checklist

•Revising Checklist

•Peer Conferring Checklist

•Editing Checklist

•CHIMPS checklist

•Personal Narrative Publishing slides

•Personal Narrative Rubric

*Teacher Guide

I hope this resource helps to transform your students into writers and maybe even get them to actually like writing!

Enjoy from my classroom to yours!

This is a digital download (PDF) with a link to this resource in Google Slides.

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