Write About My School Day

Print the page and read the directions with your child: Think about your school day. In each box, draw a picture. Then finish the sentence that starts with the order word. Afterward, talk about what they wrote or drew.

A note explains that order words tell what happens first, next, then and last. Four numbered boxes, First, Next, Then and Last, each have room for a picture and a sentence starter with that order word. The directions on the page read: Think about your school day. In each box, draw a picture. Then finish the sentence that starts with the order word.

Yes, both. We made it for 1st Grade writing, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with personal narratives. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A personal narrative is a true story about something that happened to the writer. CCSS W.1.3 asks 1st graders to tell two or more events in order, add a detail, use time words like first, next and last, and give a sense of closure. Three sentences with a beginning, a middle and an end make a strong 1st grade personal narrative.

A personal narrative is true and is told with I, like I lost my mitten at the park. A made-up story can have a talking animal or magic. These pages ask only for things that really happened to your child, and the 1st grade story writing pages cover made-up stories.

Each sheet starts with a short model by a made-up student on a different topic, such as painting a birdhouse or feeding a neighbor's cat. The model shows how the printed starters turn into whole sentences without giving away your child's own story.

No. Every child writes about their own life, so there is no single right answer. Check that the story tells what happened in order, uses the printed starters and ends with how it turned out or how your child felt.