Plan a Personal Narrative About a Time You Felt Nervous

Help your child choose one small moment, such as a single afternoon, not a whole vacation. Talk it through in order, fill the planner with short notes and then write the draft on page two or on lined paper.

Read a model about a surprise visit, then chart your body and thoughts before, during and after a time you felt nervous. A small moment is one short, true time in a personal narrative. The directions on the page read: Read the model. Read the topic. Then, fill in the chart: for before, during and after, write what your body did and what you thought. Then, write an ending. Then, use your plan to write your draft on lined paper.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd Grade narrative 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 writing 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 from your own life, told with I and events in order. It ends by telling how you felt or what you learned, like the planner about taking care of a pet, a plant or a younger child.

Time order words like First, Next, Then and Last show the order of events (W.3.3.C). On the learning a new skill planner, each of the 4 event boxes starts with one of them.

Try three kinds of hooks: a question, a sound word and an action. One planner has children write all three for a time they helped at home, then pick the one that grabs the reader best.