Tell About a Time I Was Proud of a Friend

Read the model aloud and ask your child to tell their own story out loud before writing. Fill in the planner in short notes, then write full sentences with a time-order word at the start of each part. Read the story back together and tick the checklist.

Read a made-up model about a kite on a windy day, then plan who, where and how you felt about a friend you were proud of. A personal narrative is a true story about something that happened to you. A time-order word, like first or next, tells when each part happened. The directions on the page read: Read the Model and the topic. Then, write 2 lines in each box, from Who to Closing sentence. Then, use your plan to write your story on lined paper.

Yes, both. We made it for 2nd 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, told with I and me. In 2nd grade it tells one small event in order, with details and how the writer felt (W.2.3).

Words like first, next, then, after that and finally tell when each part happened. Every sheet prints them at the top, and the checklist on page two asks, I used a time-order word.

It means slowing the story down at its most important part. On Write About a Time I Had to Wait and Write About a Parade I Watched, children write what they saw, heard and felt at that moment, after a model about a lost mitten at the rink or a first pair of glasses.

No. Each child tells a true story from their own life. Check that it stays in order, uses a time-order word and tells how your child felt, as the checklist asks.