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📖 6th Grade · ELAW.6.3aUnit 3: Narrative writing

Planning and leads

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🎯 Objective: Students engage the reader and establish a context.

Lesson outline

  1. Brainstorm.
  2. Lead types.
  3. Draft lead.
  4. Exit: lead.

Lesson 1 of 4 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.6.3a

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 6 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Write narratives with effective technique, relevant details and well-structured 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

📖 Story dice📚 All 6th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Narrative writing”

  1. Planning and leads
  2. Narrative techniques
  3. Transitions and conclusion
  4. Revise and publish

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