Help your students write personal narrative essays that include lots of opportunities for reflection with this narrative essay outline and helpful 5 paragraph essay graphic organizer. Whether you’re a middle school teacher looking to get your students to go beyond telling the story of the event or you’re a high school teacher trying to prepare your students to write the types of narrative essays they’ll need for college and scholarship applications, this resource is for you! The difference between writing a narrative story and writing a narrative essay is the implicit (or explicit) demand for reflection. Reflection, especially self-reflection, isn’t easy. This narrative essay outline shows students where to place the reflective elements so they can focus on the hard work of doing the reflecting. Introduce the narrative essay structure with a teacher presentation that walks students step-by-step through each element they need to include to write a successful personal narrative. With a sample essay built into the presentation, students can understand exactly what each element means and see the structure in action as the essay is constructed before them. A streamlined version of the presentation forms the student handout that can be printed and referred to throughout the school year or posted on your LMS for easy reference. The 5 paragraph essay graphic organizer can be used with any personal narrative prompt, autobiographical incident, and even with biographical narrative writing tasks. This quick but effective lesson will help emerging writers by providing a much needed writing scaffold but works equally well to guide more proficient writers toward including more reflection throughout their essays. Personal Narrative Essay Outline - 5 Paragraph Essay Graphic Organizer + Slides: Writing a Narrative teacher presentation slides Narrative Essay Structure student handout (color and grayscale) Narrative Essay Template Graphic Organizer (digital and print) Teacher Overview (with relevant content standards and suggestions for differentiation) Copyright © Three Heads Teaching, LLC We hope you enjoy using our materials. We have no problem with you sharing them with your course-alike colleagues and hope it earns you your favorite ☕! If you would like to share this resource with teachers outside your course-alike, please purchase additional, discounted licenses. We kindly ask that you not post any of these materials on publicly accessible websites.
