Kick off Writer's Workshop with stories only your students can tell! 📖
This Personal Narrative Unit is perfect for the beginning of the year, and it has enough depth to support the narrative writing standards any time. The lessons build excitement for writing and set the foundation for the rest of your year.
The unit is built around 4 goals:
- Get students excited about writing!
- Build a community of writers
- Build confidence in your writers
- Find ways to craft our own life stories
What's included
- Writing unit calendar with teaching points, plus a blank planning calendar
- 20 lesson ideas with descriptions of how you can model, how students practice together, and what they do independently
- 20+ writing notebook anchor charts so students have the strategies at their fingertips
- 20 full-size anchor charts to teach with, laminate as posters, or keep on a binder ring in your writing center
- Mentor text suggestions and links
- Narrative writing checklist and grading rubric
- Standards for 3rd-5th grade to glue in notebooks
- Publishing paper
The lessons aren't a rigid script. Each teaching point has a clear explanation and ideas for how it can look in your classroom, so you can make it your own.
Save with a bundle ⭐
This unit is also in the Narrative, Opinion & Informational Writing Bundle and the Narrative & Opinion Bundle.
Want extra practice? Narrative Writing Centers give students 30 skill-focused centers for storytelling, dialogue, and transitions.
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The TLL Membership gives you every writing unit PLUS hundreds of other grades 3-5 ELA resources (morning work, reading mini units, text sets, and more) for one monthly price.
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Questions or requests? Email me at help@theliteracyloft.com
Happy teaching!
-Jessica
