Creative Writing Assignment - Personal Narrative Descriptive Writing - Video

Creative Writing Assignment - Personal Narrative Descriptive Writing - Video: Elevate your writing assignments with this captivating video writing task designed to delve into your students' personal narratives and descriptive writing skills. With this engaging assignment, students select and describe three textures symbolizing their life experiences and craft a personal narrative using descriptive language. The highlight of this resource is the hand-drawn video introduction by the talented John Spencer, grabbing students' attention from the start. The comprehensive package includes detailed instructions, student handouts, writing organizers, editing checklists, and assignment sheets, ensuring seamless implementation without any prep work required.

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How This Personal Narrative Descriptive Writing Activity Works:

• Students watch a hand-drawn video that introduces the creative writing assignment to students to help them generate ideas for what textures might represent moments in their lives (examples provided in the video). This video is highly engaging and will hook your students immediately.

• Use the eye-catching PowerPoint presentation to introduce the assignment in more detail to your class and guide you through each element of the creative writing lesson and assignment.

• Use the instructions, student handout, writing organizers, editing checklist, and assignment sheets to implement the project and set students up for success with their writing.

What's Included in Personal Narrative Descriptive Writing Activity:

➡️ Introductory Video: Use this short video to introduce this engaging creative writing assignment. The video is hand-drawn and will hook your students in before you begin the lesson.

➡️ Textures of My Life Teacher Instructions: The teacher instructions will guide you through each element of the lesson and assignment so you feel totally confident implementing this in your classroom.

➡️ Textures of my Life Teacher Presentation: Use the included PowerPoint slides to guide the lesson and as prompts for what students should do and in what order.

➡️ Descriptive Writing and Personal Narrative Information Handouts: Help students improve their descriptive and personal narrative writing skills with these informative handouts with writing tips and strategies.

➡️ Personal Narrative Planning Page: Students can use this pre-writing graphic organizer to plan out their narrative. The prompting questions will guide students through the process of elements they should consider.

➡️ Personal Narrative Rough and Good Copy Pages: Now students are ready to begin the process of writing their narrative. They will write their rough copy, use the checklist mentioned below to improve their writing, then complete the final copy on the included templates.

➡️ Personal Narrative Planning Page: Students can use this pre-writing graphic organizer to plan out their narrative. The prompting questions will guide students through the process of elements they should consider.

➡️ Personal Narrative Editing Checklist: Before completing their good copies, students can use this checklist to ensure they have incorporated all the important elements from the lesson into their writing.

➡️ Teacher Rubric: Use the included rubric to grade student's work quickly and easily!

What Teachers Are Saying About This Personal Narrative Descriptive Writing Activity:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ So far this has been really fun and engaging for my students. Can’t wait to see what else they come up with.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This writing prompt really got my 7th graders thinking! This was much more interesting than the usual personal narrative topic. It was so interesting to see which textures my students chose to represent important parts of their lives. The video was a great hook, and the teacher/students resources were helpful. Not too overwhelming, just right. Thank you!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Really excited to see where this goes with my 6th graders and our narrative unit. Love the video clip & entire concept. I needed something original in order to get motivated to teach narrative. I'm going to bring in textures that are mentioned in the video in order to make it a multisensory activity.

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