NARRATIVE WRITING UNIT

This Step-by-Step Writing® Unit has EVERYTHING needed to teach Narrative Writing. It is specifically designed for teachers to follow through the WRITING PROCESS with already prepped anchor charts, modeled lessons, and practice. Every lesson builds upon the previous skill within one piece of writing, which gives students a thorough understanding of how to put a quality narrative together.

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Lessons are aligned to Common Core Standards and standards are written out.

The packet includes:

★ Scripted Lessons (Detailed lesson plans on what to say)

★ Anchor Charts

★ Differentiated Interactive Pages

★ Model Writing (For each step that builds into a quality story)

★ Original Mentor Text to show the mini-lessons in quality writing

★ Suggested Mentor Text List of quality published books

★ Student Practice Worksheets

★ Task Cards (Great for centers or extra practice)

★ Narrative Writing Checklists

★ Common Core Checklists

★ Million Dollar Dictionary

★ Tracking Form

★ Writing Goal Form

★ Peer reflection Form

★ Personal reflection Form

★ Rubrics (3-point and 4-point)

★ Final Copy Templates

★ Writing Prompt Cards

★ Weekly Writing Guide for Students

List of Lessons

(A sample is provided to model and follow through the writing process)

1. Narrative Elements

2. Prewriting- How to Brainstorming

3. Prewriting- Using Graphic Organizers for Narrative Writing

4. How to Determine Task, Audience, Purpose

5. Writing an Introduction (Character, Setting, Plot)

6. Writing a Body (Includes Power of 3, Suspense, Climax)

7. Working with Character Traits

8. How to Use Dialogue

9. Writing a Conclusion

10. Strategies to Write a Rough Draft

11. How to Form a Writing Goal

12. DARE to Revise (How to Delete, Add, Rearrange, Exchange)

13. How to Write a Rockin' Beginning (Strong Leads)

14. Using Transition Words

15. How to Use Word Choice (Million Dollar Words)

16. How to Provide Sentence Variety

17. How to Write a Jammin' Conclusion

18. How to Craft a Title

19. CUPS to Edit

20. Editing Capitalization

21. Editing Usage

22. Editing Punctuation

23. Editing Spelling

24. Rules for Peer Reflections

25. Writing a Final Copy

NARRATIVE WRITING MINI-LESSON VIDEOS

There are 26 mini lesson videos designed to take you through the writing process for narrative writing. Each video is less than 5 minutes with the exception of word choice and verb usage. They are easy to pop on and let me do the teaching!

How do you use the videos?

• writing center
• absent student
• homeschool student
• substitute
• educator

What is included in each video?

Some or all of the following are included in each video depending on the lesson. WATCH THE PREVIEW FOR 2 MINUTES OF A SAMPLE LESSON!

• the mini lesson information
• practice
• mentor text
• model the same prompt throughout the lessons
• encouragement to apply the lesson to students' own writing
• rock music at the end- Go rock your writing!

How do you access the videos?

Once you purchase here, you will download the PDF. On the PDF, there is a link to a portal of videos and a code. You will need to click on the link, create an account and put in the code. Then you can play directly from there or download the video to send to a student.

Narrative Writing Videos

N1- Narrative Elements

N2- Prewriting

N3- Task, Purpose, Audience

N4- Graphic Organizer

N5- Crafting a Plot- Suspense, Climax

N6- Introduction

N7- Body

N8- Character Traits (SEE PART OF THIS IN THE PREVIEW)

N9- Dialogue

N10- Conclusion

N11- Rough Draft

N12- DARE to Revise

N13- DARE- D- Delete

N14- DARE- A- Add details and transition words

N15- DARE- R- Rearrange

N16- DARE- E- Exchange- Rocking Beginnings

N17- DARE- E- Exchange- Million Dollar Words (Word Choice)

N18- DARE- E- Exchange- Sentence Variety

N19- DARE- E- Exchange- Jammin' Conclusion

N20- Craft a Title

N21- CUPS- Capitalization

N22- CUPS- Usage

N23- CUPS- Punctuation

N24- CUPS- Spelling

N25- Peer Reflection

N26- Final Copy

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