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📖 1st Grade · ELAW.1.3Unit 11: Narrative writing & fluency

Small moment stories

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🎯 Objective: Students plan a true story about one small moment.

Lesson outline

  1. Model telling a small moment (losing a tooth) across three fingers.
  2. Students plan on a story map.
  3. Tell a partner.
  4. Exit: show your plan.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

W.1.3

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Write two or more sequenced events with details and temporal words
  • Read grade-level text with accuracy and expression

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 1st Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Narrative writing & fluency”

  1. Small moment stories
  2. Details and feelings
  3. Two-syllable words
  4. Reading with expression
  5. Year-end celebration

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