Writing a Personal Narrative for Kids - Episode 6: Revising

In this episode on revising personal narratives, the focus is on enhancing writing by adding descriptive words, removing unnecessary elements, and changing words for better impact. The video provides examples of how to add adjectives and adverbs, remove redundant phrases, and choose more interesting words to improve the narrative. The goal is to make the story clearer and more engaging before publishing. The episode concludes with a preview of the next topic, editing.

What is the primary goal of revising a personal narrative?

• To ensure the writing makes sense and sounds better

• To publish the story immediately

• To make the story longer

• To add as many adjectives as possible

Which of the following can be added to a narrative to provide more detail?

• Adjectives and adverbs

• Unrelated stories

• Random facts

• Complex equations

Why might you remove certain words from your narrative?

• To make the story shorter

• To add more suspense

• Because they are unnecessary or don't make sense

• To confuse the reader

What should you do if a word in your narrative doesn't make sense?

• Add more words around it

• Delete the entire sentence

• Change it to a word that fits better

• Ignore it

How can you make a narrative more interesting?

• By using more boring words

• By changing boring words to more interesting ones

• By repeating the same words

• By adding unrelated details