Differentiated Personal Narrative Writing Prompts Worksheets For Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade

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Writing prompts with sentence starters and sentence frames! These 50 differentiated personal narrative writing prompts are perfect for kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade writing lessons and writing centers, as well as homework, morning work, or early finishers!

 

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Are you tired of searching on TPT, Pinterest, or Google for personal narrative writing prompts? Are you sick of wasting hours of your free time?

This is a year’s worth of writing prompts (yes, 50 prompts)! You can get your evenings and weekends back because you don’t need to look for a narrative writing worksheet for your next whole group writing lesson again!

 

Are you exhausted with planning writing activities for centers, morning work, homework, or early finishers?

You can grab these prompts and use them as a writing center, no prep morning work, fun homework, or engaging early finishers. If you use these prompts weekly, that’s the whole year sorted!

 

Do you wish you could find fun writing prompts to keep your students engaged?

There’s nothing worse than when your students hate writing lessons. These writing prompts are full of fun and exciting topics for students. Whether they’re writing about their birthday or a weird dream they had, they’re sure to be engaged!

 

You have a wide range of writing abilities in your class. Are you frustrated with activities that have no differentiation?

I bet you have some students struggling to write a sentence, but others writing a whole page. Don’t worry! There’s something for everyone with this resource. Your students can work on the same prompt, but have the support they need (through the scaffolded options).

 

Do you resent finding prompts that can only be used with one grade level? What would happen if you move from kindergarten to 3rd grade?

Whether you’re teaching kindergarten, first grade, second grade, or third grade, you can use these prompts. You could even use the 10 lined and full lined pages in 4th or 5th grade! You can rest assured that even if you change grade levels, this resource can be used. It will be valuable for YEARS to come!

 

Okay, so now you know that these aren’t just any old personal narrative writing prompts. They are engaging, differentiated, and super time saving!

 

But here’s a few other awesome things to know about these personal narrative writing prompts:

• There is cute clip art to color in and space for students to draw a picture.
• There is a writing checklist at the bottom of each page (reminding students about finger spaces, capital letters, punctuation, writing neatly, checking work, and sounding out words).
• There are 2 planning page options included
• There are blank templates (in case you or you students want to write your own prompt).
• There are extra full lined writing pages, in case your students want to write more.

 

The differentiation

One of the reasons that this resource is so valuable is that each of the 50 prompts is offered in 12 versions!

There are 4 dotted, 5 dotted, 7 plain, and 10 plain lines to choose from.

Also, there are 3 options for each line style (sentence frames, dotted sentence frames, and completely blank).

This huge amount of differentiation should allow you to cater to all of your students. Some students may thrive with just 4 dotted lines and scaffolding, whereas other students may benefit from 10 plain lines with no sentence frames to support them.

 

The personal narrative writing prompts

There are 6 themes:

• Fun Days & Experiences
• Bad Days & Experiences
• Family & Friends
• Emotions
• Special Days & Experiences
• Day-To-Day

 

Although there’s not room to list every single prompt, here’s a glimpse at some of the fun topics:

• I Saw A Cute Animal
• I Found Something Cool
• Ouch! I Got Hurt
• I Ate Something Gross
• A Fun Day With My Family
• Making A New Friend
• My Embarrassing Moment
• I Felt Scared
• I Went To A Party
• I Lost A Tooth
• What Happened Today
• My Weird Dream

 

There’s a definite variety in the style of prompts. Sometimes, students are recalling day-to-day events and experiences (‘I Helped Someone’). Other times, students are recalling exciting moments in their lives (‘A Special Day’).

 

Psst! This is a big resource but it’s easy to navigate. The table of contents is clickable so you can jump to the prompt you need.

The resource also comes in 2 document versions, to make printing easier. The pages are sorted by prompt in one version (for example, this is great if you are going to use only one prompt in a whole group lesson but want to print different versions, as some students need 4 dotted lines and others need 10 plain lines).

Then, in the other version, the pages are sorted by line style/scaffolding (for example, this is great if you are setting up centers and want to print all 50 prompts in 4 dotted lines with sentence frames).

 

Grab these amazing prompts today. Your students will be excited by these topics. They’ll have so much fun, they’ll forget they are learning!