Creative Narrative Story Writing Lessons

Narrative writing is made easy with this story writing unit for second and third grade! This pack is designed to be assembled into a Story Booklet for students to use as they work to plan and write a draft of their creative writing story.

Each booklet should contain: a story cover, a page for ideas, two planning pages, 2-4 rough copy pages, and an editing checklist to complete the story!

All about the Story Writing Pack:

• Student Book Covers – Covers for the student writing books.
• My Story Ideas - A space for students to record ideas that they have for creative stories.
• Planning Pages - Student worksheets can be used both as guided lessons or to allow students to plan their own stories independently. Planning focuses first on developing character(s), setting, problem, and solution. Then, students place these elements into a simple story with a beginning, middle, and end format.
• Rough Copy Pages – Use these pages to draft a rough copy of student stories. Each rough copy page has a mini checklist at the bottom to encourage students to check their writing for capitals, periods, interesting details, and spelling.
• Editing Checklist and Revising Reflection – Student checklists to help to guide independent and peer-editing in the classroom. Use this checklist and space to reflect on revisions to make teachers’ work easier, and have students’ work mostly corrected before it is teacher-edited. Or, use it as a guide when students conference with the teacher.
• Good Copy Pages – A space to write a final draft! When all of the edits have been made, this is a space to write a final copy. This version has space for illustrations and does not include an editing checklist.
• Rubric – An optional student-friendly 4-point rubric to guide marking. For each of the four categories, assign 1, 2, 3, or 4, starts based on mastery and evidence of that skill.

This unit includes digital Google slides student pages that are ready for digital learning. The following pages are available in the digital Google Slides version:

• Planning Pages
• Rough Copy
• Editing Checklist and Revising Reflection
• Good Copy

What are teachers saying about this Narrative Writing pack?

"Love this, we will be using this template for all the stories we write as it is very clear and well laid out. Students found it very useful!" - Elna M ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"I really liked this resource. It had a lot of graphic organizers for students to use to plan their story writing. A lot of great templates. I will also be using these when we're back in class as well, great product!" - Adriana L. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐