Young writers will traverse the story mountain to create a narrative plot of their own! Students will consider various story elements, including characters, setting, climax, problem, and solution with this great visual aid.

Reflexive pronouns are pronouns that refer back to the subject of the sentence. With this worksheet, your students will enjoy writing a narrative using the reflective pronouns myself, himself, herself, yourself, themselves, and ourselves.

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Help young writers get their personal narratives in top form with this editing checklist! Students will make sure that their narratives have correct ending punctuation and capitalization with this handy worksheet.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine narratives with characters from their favorite stories.

Your students will flesh out their personal narratives using this brainstorming guide.

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

No more abrupt “The End”s! Students will organize and reflect on their narrative’s problem and solution as they work toward a strong ending.

Your students will have fun developing the setting of a story with this graphic organizer.

Dialogue moves narratives along and can add much-needed drama to otherwise stagnant writing. In this worksheet, students get a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to their personal narratives.

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by brainstorming interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will consider past birthdays to see if they can come up with a small moment to focus their narratives on.

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by selecting interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will brainstorm about past adventures they've had and then choose one moment to focus their narratives on.

Help students get ready to write personal narratives by brainstorming interesting topics to write about. Through this activity, students will generate ideas about big events they've experienced and then pick one to focus their narratives on.

Students will use a comic book format to organize conversations within their personal narratives and practice the writing process.

Use this two-page graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast informational narratives from two different genres.

As students begin the task of writing their narratives, this fun worksheet encourages them to remember to spell these common sight words correctly.

This worksheet walks students through the three main formatting strategies writers can use when organizing and pacing their narratives.

There are many ways to spice up personal narratives. From dialogue to pictures, this worksheet teaches students the benefit of adding descriptive elements to their writing.

Drawings are fun to incorporate into writing and can add a lot to a story. In this worksheet, young writers learn the importance of labeling the illustrations they include in their narratives.

Being able to write a strong conclusion is an essential skill for all story-tellers. With this activity, budding writers will practice this skill by writing two types of endings for their personal narratives.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help students practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story of a birthday.

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your budding writer practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story related to friends.

Want students to add more pizazz to their narratives? Encourage them to use descriptive details! Have students read over their writing and identify how many adjectives they used. Then challenge them to add in at least five more adjectives.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something related to school.

In this three-page template, students will follow the prompts to create a story map about a memorable moment of joy in their life.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something they’ve done in the summer

Imagine you find a time machine that sends you 200 years into the future—what would you tell your present-day self?

Students identify noun phrases that describe character and setting.