Personal narratives

In writing, we have been focusing on personal narratives. We are using the writing process to create a final piece for this unit. The first step is to think about a small moment they want to write about. Then, they plan it out using pictures. We also outlined their stories using a graphic organizer. The categories used to help them plan it out are, when, where, what you wanted, who was there, how you felt, and what happened in detail. After the story is planned out they created a rough draft using transitional words(first, next, last). Transitional words assist in keeping an order of events in the story. The words don't have to be exactly that way but they do have to have a flow and sequence to the events that are occurring in the story, as well as a closure sentence at the end. After the rough draft they edit their work and read it over with a buddy and then compose their final draft to "publish."