Save hours of planning time with this HMH Into Reading Grade 4 Module 1 Writing resource! This complete writing slide deck includes 15 fully planned lessons designed to guide students through the full personal narrative writing process.

This resource supports HMH Into Reading Grade 4 Module 1 Writing and focuses on helping students write a personal narrative about a discovery. Students move step-by-step through brainstorming, planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing, and sharing their writing.

The lessons are designed to be easy to teach from, student-friendly, and structured so you can keep your writing block organized without having to build every lesson from scratch.

Students will explore the module focus of discovery, use the focal text La Mariposa, brainstorm personal narrative ideas, plan with story elements, craft strong leads and endings, revise with dialogue and sentence sense, edit with peer support, and prepare their narratives for publishing and celebration.

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What’s Included

This resource includes:

• 15 fully planned HMH Into Reading Grade 4 Module 1 writing lessons
• Student-friendly Google Slides
• Teacher-ready instructional language
• Personal narrative writing instruction
• Discovery-themed writing support
• Focal text connection to La Mariposa
• Writing process instruction
• Prewriting and brainstorming support
• Story map planning
• Personal narrative rubric support
• Strong lead lesson
• Narrative structure lesson
• Beginning, middle, and end support
• Show, don’t tell drafting lesson
• Strong ending lesson
• Dialogue revision lesson
• Direct and indirect dialogue support
• Peer feedback lesson
• Say Back protocol support
• Sentence sense revision
• Direct address instruction
• Editing support
• Publishing preparation
• Optional cover/illustration lesson
• Writing celebration/share lesson

Lesson Focus

Lessons 1–4: Build Writing Knowledge and Prepare for the Unit

Students begin by exploring the idea of discovery and thinking about how discoveries can be big or small. They connect to the focal text La Mariposa, discuss symbolism, collect interesting words and phrases, categorize vocabulary, review the writing process, and set goals for the module.

Lessons 5–6: Generate Ideas and Plan

Students brainstorm personal narrative ideas connected to discoveries they have made. Then they use story elements and a story map to plan their personal narrative with characters, setting, conflict, events, and conclusion.

Lessons 7–10: Draft the Personal Narrative

Students draft their narratives step-by-step. They practice crafting a strong lead, developing the middle with narrative structure, using chronological order, adding story elements, using show, don’t tell, and writing a strong satisfying ending.

Lessons 11–13: Revise and Edit

Students revise their drafts by working on dialogue, dialogue punctuation, direct and indirect dialogue, peer feedback, sentence sense, and direct address. Students also participate in structured peer editing to prepare their drafts for publishing.

Lessons 14–15: Publish and Celebrate

Students prepare their final copies by rewriting or typing their drafts, optionally creating covers and illustrations, and sharing their finished personal narratives with classmates.

Perfect For

This resource is perfect for:

• HMH Into Reading Grade 4 teachers
• Grade 4 Module 1 writing instruction
• 4th grade personal narrative writing
• Writing workshop
• Whole-group writing lessons
• Personal narrative mini lessons
• Google Slides writing instruction
• Narrative writing support
• Busy teachers
• New teachers
• Sub plans
• Writing process instruction
• ELA writing block support
• Publishing celebrations
  

Why Teachers Will Love This Resource

Planning writing lessons can be incredibly time-consuming, especially when you are trying to guide students through every stage of the writing process in a clear and manageable way.

This resource gives you a complete set of ready-to-teach slides for HMH Into Reading Grade 4 Module 1 Writing. Each lesson is already organized with teaching language, student-facing slides, modeling, discussion prompts, and work time directions.

The slide deck helps you keep writing instruction focused while supporting students through brainstorming, planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing their personal narratives.