PERSONAL NARRATIVE FOCUS SHEET

This page was the student guide page used after everything was taught to be able to write a PERSONAL NARRATIVE independently.  It is tied into 6 TRAIT WRITING and was used for 3rd graders.  This is only the first paragraph of a 5 paragraph narrative.  You will notice # 2 gives three reasons.  Those reasons will eventually end up as paragraph 2, 3 and 4.  # 1, 2, 3 are the first paragraph.  # 3 will be extended as the 5th paragraph.  After students are finished with their sloppy copy, then have them highlight the NOUNS and look in the Thesaurus for ideas of how to describe the nouns using adjectives. Do the same with the verbs using adverbs.  This is a nice, organized way to teach students how to extend their writing.  Make sure you have extensively taught all of the concepts they will be employing in their narrative.