CCSS Progression for English Language Arts: Writing and Technology
Standard 3
Standard
CC.K.W.3 Text Types and
Purposes: Use a combination of
drawing, dictating, and writing to
narrate a single event or several
loosely linked events, tell about
the events in the order in which
they occurred, and provide a
reaction to what happened.
CC.1.W.3 Write narratives in
which they recount two or more
appropriately sequenced events,
include some details regarding
what happened, use temporal
words to signal event order, and
provide some sense of closure.
Activities/Products/Technology Links
(Items bold and underlined can be used at multiple levels)
Pumpkin Carving Sequencer: Students can use this online tool to put the steps for carving a pumpkin in sequence.
Delicious Story
http://hubforteachers.discoveryeducation.com/media/pdf/delicious-story.pdf
Story Scramble
http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/storyscramble/scramble.html
Lesson Plan
http://commoncore.org/free/index.php/maps/grade_k_unit_2/
Lesson Plan
http://commoncore.org/free/index.php/maps/grade_1_unit_3/
Student Examples:
Personal Narrative: My Dad
Personal Narrative: The Horrible Day
Personal Writing Student Models
http://thewritesource.com/studentmodels/w1-mexico.htm
flip book
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/flipbook/
Beginning, Middle, and End Chart
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson874/bme.pdf
CC.2.W.3 Write narratives
in which they recount a
well-elaborated event or short
Use pictures to put events of a story in chronological order: Second Grade Writing Lesson #1/ Narrative Prompt
Students will write a personal narrative about a time they surprised themselves or someone else.
sequence of events, include
details to describe
actions, thoughts, and feelings,
use temporal words to signal
event order, and provide a sense
of closure.
CC.3.W.3 Write narratives to
develop real or imagined
experiences or events using
effective technique, descriptive
details, and clear event
sequences.
Introduce a narrator/characters
Use dialogue and descriptions
Use temporal words and phrases
CC.4.W.3 Write narratives
to develop real or imagined
experiences or events using
effective technique, descriptive
details, and clear event
sequences.
Cowboys and Fairy Tales: Interacting With Fractured Texas Tales This lesson explores the way versions of fairy tales are
created and challenges the students to create one of their own.
Teaching about Story Structure Using Fairy Tales
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/teaching-about-story-structure-874.html
Pre-Writing Chart http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson874/prewrite.pdf
Personal Narrative http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/writing/personal.htm
Student Examples:
Personal Narrative: The Sled Run
Personal Narrative: The Funny Dance
Friendly Letter: Dear Ms.
Nathan
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear
event sequences
 Inspired by the Sea http://commoncore.org/free/index.php/maps/grade_3_unit_2/
 Stories Worth Telling Again and Again http://commoncore.org/free/index.php/maps/grade_3_unit_1/
 Third Grade Writing Lesson #1/ Descriptive Prompt To write a descriptive piece that paints a picture in the
reader's mind.
Books to use for examples:
 Grandfather’s Journey, Allen Say
 Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney
 The Sea Chest, Toni Buzzeo (any book with vivid setting)
 Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
 All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachian
Reading Ring – main idea setting, main characters, etc. http://www.professorgarfield.org/pgf_ReadingRing.html
Graphic Map for Personal Narrative http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/graphicmap/
Imaginative Narrative http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/writing/imaginative.htm
Ideas for Personal Narratives
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/ideasforwriters/gr4/ideas_narratives_pre/ideas_narratives.html
Practice Sequencing http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/sequncingp.cfm
Student Examples:
Personal Essay: Rules
Personal Essay: My Mother
Personal Essay: Ann
Personal Essay: Grandpa, Chaz, and Me
Personal Narrative: The Day I Took the Spotlight
Personal Narrative: Jet Bikes
Personal Narrative: Indy’s Life Story
Narrative prompts about the best/worst experiences with a list of books to use:
 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
 Thank You, Mr. Falker, Patricia Polacco
 The Bee Tree, Patricia Polacco
 Lil’s Purple Plastic Purse, Kevin Henkes
Using Picture Books to Teach Characterization This ReadWriteThink lesson invites students to examine the craft of
developing characters through focused experiences with pictures books. Through the careful analysis of character
portrayal using the text and illustrations as cues, and online tools such as the ReadWriteThink Story Map, students have
the opportunity to build bridges from their own experiences as readers to those skills needed as writers.
Fleas! One parasite most students will have heard of and many will have seen is the common cat flea. That's the one that
pesters our cats and dogs in the United States (the dog flea harasses European pets). In this lesson, students will learn
about the flea's life cycle and the reasons fleas are so attracted to our pets. They'll conclude by writing a story from the
flea's perspective
Story Maker Design your own story including picture backgrounds and characters.
http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/gamestation/storymaker/storymaker.htm
CC.5.W.3 Write narratives
to develop real or imagined
experiences or events using
effective technique, descriptive
details, and clear event
sequences.
Sequence a cup of tea http://www.citycol.com/basic_skills/Quizzes/Reading/cupoftea.htm
Where Do Your Belongings Come From? This lesson asks students to figure out where their belongings came from and to
consider the reasons why many items are imported from other countries. They will list the locations of origin for the items
they use on a typical morning. They will conclude by researching the export industries of an East Asian country and writing
paragraphs describing this country's exports to the United States.
Starting & Stopping with Strong Imagery
http://writingfix.com/Process/Revision/Leaving_Morning.htm
Have students storyboard and script videos for production using simple hand-held camcorders (flip)
Fairy Tales, Then and Now In this lesson, students read an old fairy tale or story and list the geographical features and
characters described in the story. They'll then think about how the story might be updated to reflect their own modern
setting and culture and will conclude by performing an updated version of the story. This lesson is found on the Xpeditions
website from National Geographic.
Using Picture Books to Teach Characterization This ReadWriteThink lesson invites students to examine the craft of
developing characters through focused experiences with pictures books. Through the careful analysis of character
portrayal using the text and illustrations as cues, and online tools such as the ReadWriteThink Story Map, students have
the opportunity to build bridges from their own experiences as readers to those skills needed as writers.
Can I have a Word? Giving teachers new ideas and resources to inspire creative writing in the classroom.
http://www.barbican.org.uk/canihaveaword/
6-8
Time for Kids A student version of this popular news magazine. Includes current news articles, homework tips, games,
surveys and polls, and links to other magazines.http://www.timeforkids.com/
Student Examples:
Journal Writing: A Lesson to Learn
Personal Narrative: The Racist Warehouse
Personal Narrative: Giving
Life
Choose Your Own Adventure: Hypertext Writing Exp. This lesson, from ReadWriteThink, combines reading and writing in
a collaborative, small-group learning experience. It utilizes technology, specifically Web page design, group and individual
work, and student self-assessment. After reading several examples, students will plan their own adventure story. They will
be divided into smaller groups for each split in the story until finally the students are writing their own endings. Using
Web-authoring software, groups will create their own Web sites with the parts of the story hyperlinked to each other.
How Big are Martin's Big Words? The book "Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." tells of King's
childhood determination to use "big words" through biographical information and quotations. In this lesson from
ReadWriteThink, students explore information on Dr. King to think about his "big" words, then they write about their own
"big" words and dreams.
The Big Bad Wolf: Analyzing Point of View in Texts Many students read without questioning a text or analyzing the
author's viewpoint. In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students learn to look at texts from different viewpoints. Was the
"big bad wolf" really bad? Throughout the lesson, students are encouraged to view texts from different angles.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving's tale of the Headless Horseman has become a Halloween classic,
although few Americans celebrated that holiday when the story was new. In this unit from EDSITEment, students explore
the artistry that helped make Irving our nation's first literary master and ponder the mystery that now haunts every
Halloween--What happened to Ichabod Crane?
http://commoncore.org/free/index.php/maps/grade_6_unit_1/
http://commoncore.org/free/index.php/maps/grade_6_unit_2/
It Came From Greek Mythology This page contains 6 EDSITEment lessons based around teaching Greek mythology.
Students will study basic plots of three Greek myths and discuss three types of themes in Greek myths. They will also
explore contemporary uses of terms from Greek mythology and analyze artistic and literary works based on or inspired by
Greek myths. http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/it-came-greek-mythology
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/index.htm
http://storyarts.org/index.html
http://www.greatsource.com/iwrite/students/s_narrative.html
http://kids.MysteryNet.com/
Constructing Narratives: A Unit Plan for Taking Apart and Reconstructing Stories
http://alex.state.al.us/lesson_view.php?id=30020
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/from-object-to-story/
From Object to Story: Writing a Historical Narrative Featuring an Artifact from One's Family History
Choose Your Own Adventure: Hypertext Writing Exp. This lesson, from ReadWriteThink, combines reading and writing in
a collaborative, small-group learning experience. It utilizes technology, specifically Web page design, group and individual
work, and student self-assessment. After reading several examples, students will plan their own adventure story. They will
be divided into smaller groups for each split in the story until finally the students are writing their own endings. Using
Web-authoring software, groups will create their own Web sites with the parts of the story hyperlinked to each other.
Poems that Tell a Story In this lesson, students read, discuss, and analyze selected poems by Robert Frost. The activities
that make up this lesson encourage students to draw inferences about a poem's speaker based on evidence contained
within the poem and to gather evidence supporting those inferences. From this page, teachers can access all materials
needed to complete the lesson.
Writing Alternative Plots for Robert C. O'™Brien's Z for Zachariah Throughout Z for Zachariah (Robert C. O'Brien), the
narrator, Ann Burden, is faced with a number of tough decisions as she strives to survive in a post-nuclear holocaust
world. As a culminating activity, students apply their knowledge of cause and effect to these tough decisions to create
alternative plots.
Writing a Flashback and Flash-Forward Story Flashbacks and flash-forwards are common devices used in literature and
films. In this lesson from ReadWritethink, students are introduced to examples of these devices through the film "The
Sandlot" and/or illustrated books. Students are then asked to create a story that contains both flashback and flashforward.
UNIT 1 Characters with Character This first six-week unit of seventh grade starts the year off with reflections on
characters from literature and historical time periods.
http://commoncore.org/free/index.php/maps/grade_7_unit_1/
Personal Narrative Prompt Collection
http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ejhholly/pnarrative.html
A Narrative Warm-UP
http://writingfix.com/genres/narrative_mentor_texts/WhenIWasFive.htm
Episodic Narrative Writing
http://writingfix.com/Chapter_Book_Prompts/PicturesHollisWoods3.htm
Reshaping Narrative Writing as Poetry
http://writingfix.com/Process/Revision/Bronx_Masquerade.htm
When I was young
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/when-young-literature-language-911.html
9-12
In Search of Wisdom:
An Interview with an Elder
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/04-1/lesson011.shtml
Ten Writing Prompts
http://members.accessus.net/~bradley/narrativeprompts2.html
Narrative Essay Prompts
http://members.accessus.net/~bradley/NarrativeEssayPrompts.html
Student Examples:
Extended Personal Narrative: The Climb
Extended Personal Narrative: Caught in the Net
Extended Personal Narrative: The Boy with John Travolta Blue Eyes
Personal Essay: It’s a Boy!
Personal Essay: Take Me to Casablanca
Personal Essay: My Greatest Instrument
Personal Essay: Snapshots
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred the odds are in your favor
Edgar rice Burroughs
Other Resources
http://penzu.com/ online journal writing
Ten Narrative Prompts
http://www.tengrrl.com/tens/019.shtml
Ten Prewriting exercises for personal narratives
http://www.tengrrl.com/tens/006.shtml
Narrative Writing Web Resources
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/narrative.html
This page represents a whole collection of pages—all that focus on narrative writing, both fictional and nonfiction. Some are lessons that are
suited for classroom teaching, others link to handy-to-use workbook-type pages.
http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/writing/personal.htm
This site is divided into 9 parts, and includes everything from prompts to word lists to sample stories, all focused on narrative writing.
The information is appropriate for middle/upper grade elementary students.
http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/imprint_downloads/merrill_professional/images/Person alNarrativeTeachingStrategies.pdf
Don’t click here unless you have a bit of time to spend!! It is a 7-page PDF file taken from a published book.
http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit485/lesson2.html
This site provides a clearly organized lesson intended for use in a classroom period of 50 minutes.
Make Kids' Writing Shine:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/power.htm
Graphic Organizers
http://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm