1st grade Narrative Writing Lesson Plans

Beginning Writing: All About Me

This lesson will take the fear out of writing by allowing your students to write about what makes them happy. It provides a simple way to give young writers creative freedom.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Writing From the Heart

Lesson plan

Writing From the Heart

This lesson will inspire your students to focus on the people, pets, things, places, and ideas that mean the most to them! Your students will practice writing in this heartfelt lesson.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Plan Your Story: Sequence of Events

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Plan Your Story: Sequence of Events

Strong narratives have clear sequences of events. Through this lesson, students plan out what will happen in their story before they start writing their own engaging narratives.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Highlight Reading and Writing

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Highlight Reading and Writing

This lesson incorporates everyday reading material into a fun creative writing activity. Students will learn new vocabulary and incorporate it into an original story.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Leaf Art Animals

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Leaf Art Animals

Help your class' creativity blossom with this lesson that has them make unique animals out of leaves and write a story about them.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Christmas Adventure Writing

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Christmas Adventure Writing

What adventures can a reindeer, candy cane, and a snowman embark on? Let’s find out! In this writing lesson, students will write a Christmas-themed narrative incorporating characters, setting, problem, and solution.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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We All Sing with the Same Voice

Lesson plan

We All Sing with the Same Voice

When students sing together, magic can happen! In this lesson, students will learn how songs can tell stories and bring us together.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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What Happens Next?

Lesson plan

What Happens Next?

Featuring Stephanie's Ponytail by Robert Munsch, this creative writing lesson gives students the chance to turn themselves into the main characters of emotion-packed short stories.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Mixed Up Animals

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Mixed Up Animals

In this fun and silly lesson, students use their imaginations to create mixed-up animals. After making their funny creations, students will write narratives about their fictional animals.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Springtime Interview

Lesson plan

Springtime Interview

It's springtime! What better way to celebrate than by interviewing your classmate with a range of spring-related questions? Students will practice interviewing one another and recording answers using complete sentences.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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St. Patrick's Day Writing: If I Found a Pot of Gold...

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St. Patrick's Day Writing: If I Found a Pot of Gold...

Could there be a pot of gold waiting for you at the end of that rainbow? Or is it hiding elsewhere? In this St. Patrick's Day lesson plan, students will write about what they would do if they found a pot of gold.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Let's Write Right Now

Lesson plan

Let's Write Right Now

A good writer doesn't leave his readers waiting. Help your young authors pen some descriptive sentences and narrative paragraphs right now with this teacher-approved lesson.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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1st grade Narrative Writing Lesson Plans

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