Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Using this worksheet, students will focus on creating a personal timeline about their life.

Personal narrative writing is all about you! Get kids thinking and writing about their personal experiences and how they felt about them.

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Use this helpful worksheet to review personal pronouns with your fourth and fifth graders! 

Children use a watermelon graphic organizer to craft a personal narrative with this fun template!

Use this assessment and the corresponding rubric to see how well students write personal narratives!

Encourage students to develop an informational paragraph using a personal anecdote!

Children draw on their own experiences to craft a personal narrative in this essay-writing worksheet.

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

Relive the experience of trying something new with this personal narrative writing prompt for third, fourth, and fifth graders!

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Ivan from The One and Only Ivan.

Help your student become aware of everyday energy use with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet.

Use this worksheet as an assessment that goes with the lesson plan Capturing the Clues, or as a stand-alone assessment of idiom meanings.