Standards:

CCR.ELA-Literacy.W.2.3 Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

CCR.ELA-Literacy.W.2.6 With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.

CCR.ELA-Literacy.W.2.5 With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.

CCR.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.5 Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

Personal Narrative Anchor Chart

To write a strong personal narrative, writers:

Understand the features of a personal narrative:

• it is a true story
• it tells where and when it happened

The writer uses the first person point of view: I, me, and my.

• has a beginning, middle, and end
• the writer describes his/her actions, thoughts and feelings.
• A life lesson usually closes a personal narrative.

When I was 6 years old, I lived in Cleveland, Tennessee. We lived in a house that had a huge backyard with a really cool swing set and several huge trees. One tree in particular was a really good climbing tree.

During the summer, my sister, Katherine, my friend Will and I would spend hours playing outside. We knew if we went inside our moms would give us chores to do!

My yard had this one huge tree in the way back that was perfect for climbing. It had this one low branch that was easy to swing up on so we could get to the rest of the branches.

Mom always told us not to climb too high because she wasn't coming up to get us if we got stuck.

One day we were all outside playing in the tree. Will decided we were going to see who could climb the highest. First he went up, touched the top of the tree and climbed back down.