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📖 3rd Grade · ELAW.3.3aUnit 3: Personal narrative writing

Story arc planning

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🎯 Objective: Students plan a story with a beginning, problem, climax and resolution.

Lesson outline

  1. Model a story arc: beginning, problem, climax, resolution.
  2. Plan your own.
  3. Tell it to a partner.
  4. Exit: show your plan.

Lesson 2 of 6 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.3.3a

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 3 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Write narratives with dialogue, description and a clear sequence of events

✅ 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 3rd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Personal narrative writing”

  1. Generating ideas
  2. Story arc planning
  3. Dialogue
  4. Show, don’t tell
  5. Transitions and endings
  6. Edit and publish

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