Small Moment Story Lessons
Students can use personal narrative mentor texts, anchor charts, and writing conferences to help them decide on a narrow topic for their small moment story.
Students can use personal narrative mentor texts, anchor charts, and writing conferences to help them decide on a narrow topic for their small moment story.
A strong lead can give students confidence to continue their narrative writing. This post shares ways to model and encourage strong leads in your students’ writing.
For most of my 27 years of teaching, I have taught personal narratives in some way, shape or form. In doing so, I have encountered a wide variety of personal narratives to use as mentor texts. In the past, I’ve tried reading a different narrative to my students every day.
We recently finished our writing unit on personal narratives. As with all of my units, I like to take a little time to reflect on what went well, as well as what I would like to do differently. Today I’d like to share my thoughts and strategies on narrative leads.