First Grade Writing Curriculum: Personal Narrative
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What Units are Included in the Bundle?
- Unit 1: Personal Narrative: Small Moments
- Unit 2: Non-Realistic Fiction: Showing Not Telling (coming soon)
- Unit 3: Writing to Teach & Inform: Engaging Teaching Texts (coming soon)
- Unit 4: Poetry: Exploring Poetry (coming soon)
- Unit 5: Realistic-Fiction: Developing Characters (coming soon)
- Unit 6: Opinion & persuasive Writing: Writing Reviews (coming soon)
- Unit 7: Non-Fiction Chapter Books: Organization Information (coming soon)
Unit 1 Scope:
Lesson 1 Research: Introduction to personal narrative
Lesson 2 Planning: Topics I Can Write About
Lesson 3 Planning: Choosing a Small Moment
Lesson 4 Planning: Mapping the beginning, middle, and end
Lesson 5 Writing/drawing to tell about what happened first
Lesson 6 Writing/drawing to tell about what happened next
Lesson 7 Writing/drawing to tell about what happened last
Lesson 8 Revising: Adding details to my story
Lesson 9 Revising: Using sounds and sight words to improve my story
Lesson 10 Planning: Choosing a small moment
Lesson 11 Planning: Mapping the beginning, middle, and end
Lesson 12 Writing/drawing to tell about what happened first
Lesson 13 Writing/drawing to tell about what happened next
Lesson 14 Writing/drawing to tell about what happened last
Lesson 15 Revising: Adding details to my story
Lesson 16 Revising: Using sounds and sight words to improve my story
Lesson 17 Proofreading my best story
Lesson 18 Getting & giving feedback
Lesson 19 Using feedback to edit my story
Lesson 20 Publishing: Making a finished copy of my story
Lesson 21 Publishing:Adding a cover and title to my story
Lesson 22 End of unit celebration
How are the Units Designed?
Part 1: Pre-Unit On Demand
This quick writing task provides an an opportunity to assess prior knowledge. Use this writing sample to guide your teaching throughout the unit and measure growth.
Part 2: Lessons
Each lesson is broken up into 6 easy-to-follow parts.
- Focus- The skill, strategy, or idea students will be focusing on this lesson.
- Warm Up- A quick activity that has students review and practice previous skills.
- Mini Lesson- Teach, model, and discuss the new skill in today’s lesson.
- Practice-The hands-on portion of the lesson where students apply what they have learned in the mini lesson to their own writing. During this time you will conference individually with students.
- Mid-Practice Teaching Point-A quick reminder and chance to highlight the great work students are doing.
- Share- Lesson wrap up where students analyze, reflect on, and share their work.
Part 3: Final Writing Piece
The unit final writing piece is a published piece of writing that highlights everything the student learned in this unit.
Part 4: Post-Unit On Demand
This quick writing task provides an opportunity to assess progress and measure growth.
What Does a Lesson Look Like?
Depending on the time you have available for writing, I have suggested schedules for the following time blocks:
- 60 Minute Time Block
- 45 Minute Time Block
- 30 Minute Time Block
The Writing Process:
- Research- Learn about a style of writing or topic.Read and look at great books to get ideas
- Planning: Decide on a topic and plan out your ideas.
- Writing: Use your plan to help you write your story.
- Revising: Improve your writing by adding details.
- Proofreading: Check your work. Use your resources to help you.
- Feedback: Ask others to read your story and give you ideas of how to improve it!
- Editing: Use the feedback you got from others to help make your story even better!
- Publishing: Make a neat copy of your book that is ready to share with the world!
Also included in the Curriculum:
- Tips for Getting Started (Classroom and Material Organization and Procedures)
- Developmental Writing Stages
- Unit Text (Mentor Text) Guides
- Conferencing Guides
- Conferencing Planner
- Conferencing Tracker
- Assessment Guide
- Rubrics and Rubric Guide
- Multiple Writing Templates
- Publishing Party Guide
- Publishing Party Supplies
- Unit Posters
- Personal Writing Things We Can Write About
- The Writing Process Chart
- Writing Checklists
- Peer Editing Checklist
- Young Author Award
- Writing Folder Covers
- Pencil Organization Labels
- Writers Library Labels
- Alphabet Chart (full and mini size)
- Letter Formation Chart (full and mini size)
- Personal Narratives Charts:
- Beginning, Middle, and End
- Words We Use
- Small Moments Posters
- Zooming in on Small Moments
- Detailed Picture Poster
- Detailed Word Posters
- Cover of a Book Poster
- Writer's Checklist (2 posters)
- I Can Write About...
- Adding Details to our Writing Poster
- Writing Checklist
- Alphabet Sounds Chart (full and mini size)
- Word Wall Personal Book (sight word copy and EDITABLE copy!)
- We Are Authors Banner
- 2 Wordless Picture Books
- Black and White Version Included
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