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Hi, I'm Laura from youngwritersworkshops.com, and I'm going to talk about how to teach personal
narrative writing for third grade. Third grade writers can use the writing workshop model,
and I would start with that as your basis. Use your writer's workshop tools to move into
this personal narrative writing. You want to use the third grade's love of telling stories
to really expand into this topic. Encourage them to find their voice and to tell the story
using a style that only they can use. You know, let their style come out in this writing.
One of the things you'll need to think about in helping your students to write their personal
narratives is helping them to stay on topic. At this age, they can very often wander off
and include details that aren't related to their topic. So as you create your brainstorm...as
you help the students create brainstorms for their personal narrative, help them to eliminate
things that don't relate back to their story that they're telling in this narrative. Help
them move from a brainstorm to a paragraph, and then onto the peer conference, where they'll
read their writing and listen to the feedback from a fellow writer. And it's asking questions
or giving them compliments on some of their work. Then encourage them to take that information
and go back and write a revision of their original narrative. So to sum up, the way
that a third grader...the way to teach third grade narrative writing is use the workshop,
use peer conferencing, and encourage students to stay on topic.