Good Beginnings Narrative Writing Mini-lessons Unit
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Your narrative writing lesson plans are done! In this unit, students will read books with great beginnings and discuss what makes them great, understand different types of beginnings, revise writing to improve the beginnings, and try out good beginnings in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step plans!
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Description
Your narrative writing lesson plans are done! In this unit, students will read books with great beginnings and discuss what makes them great, understand different types of beginnings, revise writing to improve the beginnings, and try out good beginnings in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step plans!
Included in this resource:
– Teacher tips for introducing writing strategies
– Mentor text list for six different types of narrative beginnings
– Lesson plans for the unit
– A hands-on activity in which students read examples of six different beginning types and identify the writing strategy being used in each
– Materials for building an anchor chart to record the hands-on learning
– Mark It Up! An activity for identifying the components of a good beginning
– 7 Good beginning posters
– Good beginning notes: 2 versions – complete and ready to write
– Revise It: revise a boring beginning in six ways (sample key included)
– Revise Your Own: a guide to revising your own boring beginning
– Try It: a guide to writing better beginning
– Good Beginning tips – a bookmark sized tip sheet
