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.
Personal Narratives with Strong Leads
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.
Using Mentor Texts for Personal Narratives
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
Teaching Students to Compose Strong Narrative Leads
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
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