Writing Personal Narrative Skills Bundle

Writing becomes much more fun and engaging with this collection of animated PowerPoint lessons, companion practice sheets, and boom cards. This bundle includes 3 Activities to go along with each of your personal narrative writing skills for grades 3-5. VIDEO EXPLANATION HERE

Big vs Small Topic- is so helpful in making students understand the difference so they can hone in on those seed ideas to use in their writing. This activity really cements this idea for them. I came up with an activity to help guide students into understanding the concept of small moments into your student's brains so they can focus on descriptive detail rather than events. This activity is a cut -a-part activity where students cut out topic ideas and try to place them into the correct category. Before doing this activity it helps to do a mini lesson on the difference between a watermelon, slice, and seed topic. This activity can also be used as a formative assessment tool as well. Also includes 20 boom cards for digital practice and powerpoint for teacher instruction.

Writing Narrative Introductions-Includes an easy hands-on activity will guide your students to use one to four types of introduction strategies while writing personal narrative stories. The four types of narrative introductions presented: sound, talking, question, and setting. Narrative Introductions PowerPoint is an easy, no-prep, PowerPoint that will teach your students how to write an introduction for their narratives. The Powerpoint uses the word "hooks" for a strong introduction. There are four types of narrative introductions presented: sound, talking, question, and setting. Each type has an example and calls on students to create and example with a given topic as well. Boom cards give your students great examples for 4 types of introductions: Setting, Question, Sound, Talking. To reinforce understanding about narrative introductions students will be presented with 2 types. Also included are 3 instructional cards with sound to get students ready for the task cards following the introduction cards.

Add Detail to Narrative Story- Give your students extra practice with these 24 task cards, 20 boom cards, and 18 powerpoint slides! These practice tools will help students add detail to their writing using the 5 sentence. Most practice activities occur at the sentence level. The powerpoint presentation will ask students to work on providing detail with the senses at both sentence level and with small moments. Task cards come with a recording sheet and practice activity. Each product can be used in the same lesson with centers or on different days to continue practice and reinforcement.

Show vs Tell in Narrative Text- Give your students extra practice with 24 task cards, 20 boomlearning cards, and 20 powerpoint slide examples to help them recognize the difference between showing vs. telling in their writing. Task cards come with a recording sheet. (Includes an answer key)

Choose the Best Transition Word(s) or Phrase(s)- Give your students extra practice with these 24 task cards, 30 boom cards, and 20 powerpoint slides! These practice tools will help students choose the best transition for a sentence or passage. The powerpoint presentation will ask students to choose a transition word or phrase for a specific purpose by guiding students using a chart. Task cards come with a recording sheet and answer key. Each product can be used in the same lesson with centers or on different days to continue practice and reinforcement.

Changing Paragraphs for Revising-includes an editing activity designed to have your students find where the paragraph symbol should go in a personal narrative piece of writing. There are five examples and answer keys included. Can be used for small groups or individual practice. Interactive boomcards that are self-correcting. Deck includes 3 instructional cards and 17 practice cards. PowerPoint Presentation is used to introduce how and why paragraphs have to change when writing you can use this powerpoint presentation.

Writing Satisfying Endings- Give your students extra practice with these 24 task cards, 20 boom cards, and 20 powerpoint slides! These practice tools will help students understand 4 different types of narrative endings: Memory, Hope/wish, Feelings, and Decision. The powerpoint presentation will ask students to choose an ending after learning about their purpose. Task cards come with a recording sheet and answer key. Boomcards are self-correcting and used on boomlearning site. They cannot be printed. Each product can be used in the same lesson with centers or on different days to continue practice and reinforcement. 3 different ways to reach the learners in your room!

Quotation Punctuation for Editing-Give your students extra practice with these 24 task cards, 29 boom cards, and 29 powerpoint slides! These practice tools will help students understand how to punctuate quotations. The powerpoint presentation will help teachers instruct the three ways quotations can be written. Task cards come with a recording sheet and answer key. Boomcards are self-correcting and used on boomlearning site. They cannot be printed. Each product can be used in the same lesson with centers or on different days to continue practice and reinforcement. 3 different ways to reach the learners in your room!

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