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Unit: Lesson Plan for Personal Narrative Grade: K-1 Teacher Name: Barb Freouf School: Burwell Elementary

Standards: Beginning Personal Narratives in First Grade

Objective: To create a list of personal experiences Identify effective features in a personal narrative Prewrite a personal narrative

Content Lesson: Read a Personal Narratives to the children everyday for 2 weeks pointing out the characteristics of a personal narrative. Characteristics of a personal Narrative are: 1) It is one event that happened in the writer’s life 2) The words **I, me, my us** and **we** are used 3) What happened first and what happened last 4) Listen for one sentence that shows the writer’s personal feelings

Discussion Questions: What did the author of the story do? Who is telling the story? How do you know? What happened first? How does the author feel in his story?

Keep a written log of student experiences. Write one every day. Examples:
 * Took swimming lessons ||
 * Took a bucket calf to the fair ||
 * Went to Disney World for vacation ||

Prewrite: Set the Purpose. You will be the author write about one of your events. Talk with your partner about your event. Now let’s write down some of your thoughts about your event on sentence strips. Organize your sentence strips on this chart.

Topic:
 * First ||
 * Next ||
 * Next ||
 * Then ||
 * Last ||

Closure: Have student read their narrative of their glued sentence strips on this form to each other.

Practice several of these and save for Draft, Revise and Publish stages later in the year.

Materials: Personal Narrative stories, sentence strips, Experience log, Sentence strip organizer

Duration: 2 weeks 15-20 minute lessons __Some Personal Narratives for Elementary Children__: The Night Before First Grade by Natasha Wing A Big Fat Enormous Lie by Marjorie Weinman Sharmot Snowball Soup by Mercer Mayer Dinosaur Hunt by David Catrow My Messy Room by Mary Packard Check your library or ask your Librarian