Personal Narrative Writing Workshop

A personal narrative tells...

• a problem

• about a personal experience

• facts

• details

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

Writers use _____________ -they they saw, heard, touched, smelled, and tasted. 

• sensory details
• main ideas
• pictures
• mood

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Your personal narrative must have included dialogue.

True or False?

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

Writing with dialogue...
Quotation marks are placed on both sides of a direct quote.
True or False? 

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Your personal narrative must have included a _______________, ______________, and an ______________. 

• main idea, theme, conclusion
• beginning, middle, end
• problem, story, senses.
• beginning, authors purpose, resolution

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

Your personal narrative must have included sensory details.
True or False? 

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

flash of lights in the night sky-
is an example of which sensory detail?

• sound
• sight
• touch 
• taste

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

Ice crackled and pinged against the family room window-
is an example of which sensory detail? 

• smell
• sound
• sight
• touch

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

soft tufts of fur -
is an example of which sensory detail? 

• sight
• sound
• touch
• taste

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

ice-cold strawberries
-is an example of which sensory detail? 

• sight
• smell
• touch
• taste

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4