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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring and Sharing Family Stories

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Narrative for Expository Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Lesson in which students read various narrative texts which provide a context for them to learn content-area topics. Narratives allow the students to begin to understand expository texts.
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Unit Plan
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Project Narration

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers for narrative writing. Students will be able to prewrite and draft their narrative writings more efficiently by using these tools.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for writing. Elaborate graphic organizers for the following areas are provided: persuasive essays, expository essays, paragraph writing, fiction pieces, narrative writing,...
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The English Teacher

Teacher2b.com: The English Teacher: The Odyssey: Writing Test

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students write a journal entry from the viewpoint of one of the following characters from the Odyssey: Telemakhos, Penelope, Eurykleia the nurse, Antinoos (a suitor), and the goddess Athena.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Perspective in Narrative

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Interactive instructional activity which allows learners to determine the perspective or point of view of a story character by imagining actually spending a day in their "shoes." Based on Atticus's statement in "To Kill a Mockingbird."...
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "I Have a Story to Tell"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes acquainting students with the narrative writing process, emphasizing the importance of writing, encouraging students to use imagination,...
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Article
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Narrative Essay Assignments

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A number of narrative essay assignments are provided in this discussion. Assignments are provided to help scaffold the narrative essay writing process.
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Article
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Narrative Essay Topics and Story Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of 101 narrative essay topics, short story ideas, and narrative writing prompts are provided on this site. Links to related narrative topics are also provided. W.11-12.3 Narratives, W.11-12.3a Narratives
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Personal Narrative Writing 3.w.3.3

For Students 3rd Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to images of notes, web sites, and videos that teach students how to write a personal narrative.
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Lesson Plan
TES Global

Tes: Forms of Poetry

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These Several lessons provide students with an understanding with different types of writing forms: calligram, cinquain, diamante, haiku, and narrative.
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Handout
Merriam-Webster

Merriam Webster: Anecdote/definition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A good extensive definition of "anecdote" and the origin of the word.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Finding Salinger

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the story of a lost cat. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning....
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading (And Scaffolding) Narrative Texts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students need to learn the purposes and methods of narration in order to understand the narrative framework and to eliminate frustration when they read. When students know the narrative elements, they can more easily follow the story...
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Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: High School Personal Narrative Example

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This two-page essay provides an example of a personal narrative (Click on View Printable Version). Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing Narratives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes, a PowerPoint presentation, two videos, a song, an exercise, and a game help students to understand how to write a narrative. Elements of a narrative as well as the use of figurative language and sensory images are introduced and...
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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale: Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Journey of Discovery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This site features three novels and uses them to show students that reading can be fun and useful. Students and teachers will benefit from this informative resource.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Alyssa Wears a Bow Tie

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a fictional narrative about a girl who chooses to show her creativity by wearing a bow tie on the first day of school. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "History's Heroes"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes helping students appreciate historical events, enhancing students' understanding of the difference between narrative and expository text, and...
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Handout
Other

University of North Carolina: Glossary of Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is provided for by the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Over forty literary terms defined by college students, each with thorough examples.
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Article
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Writing Narrative Essays

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article provides the components of narrative writing. The author emphasizes ways to make narrative writing better. W.9-10.3e Conclusion
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eBook
PBS

Pbs Kids: Daniel's Neighborhood: Daniel's Babysitter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This e-book is based on the PBS Kids' series, Daniel's Neighborhood. Students will read aloud as Daniel narrates the adventures he has with his babysitter.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Wheel

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and then turn a question wheel to answer questions about the characters, setting, conflict, and plot. Materials are included.[PDF]
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Summary Step Up [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to show the plot elements of the story. Materials are included.