More About This Resource
This narrative writing unit includes everything you need to incorporate personal and imaginative narrative writing into your 1st grade literacy centers! This resource is designed with standards-based research and includes two mini-lessons to use as a review, suggested mentor text and online resources, academic vocabulary posters, anchor chart, and seasonal writing prompts.
This writing center includes seasonal writing prompt choice boards for personal narratives and imaginative narratives. The writing prompts and publishing paper include vocabulary word banks to assist young writers in brainstorming ideas and spelling words while writing.
In addition, students can edit their work with the self-editing checklists. This narrative writing center is perfect for whole-class writing, small group writing, literacy center activities, homework, or as a meaningful writing activity when you have a substitute teacher.
Resources Included:
- Unpacking the standard & notes for the teacher
- Suggested mentor text & Online resources
- Mini-Lessons for Personal narrative & Imaginative narrative
- Academic vocabulary teaching posters
- Graphic Organizers (multiple options to differentiate)
- Publishing Paper- primary lined with temporal word bank
- Personal narrative seasonal prompt choices (6 each Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer) PRINTABLE & DIGITAL (GOOGLE SLIDES)
- Imaginative narrative seasonal fiction titles choices (6 each Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer) PRINTABLE & DIGITAL (GOOGLE SLIDES)
- Rubrics (Personal narrative and Imaginative narrative)
- Prompt Images to Upload to Seesaw if desired













The Secret Room –
Easy to use and great for visual learners. We used this often to help the students learn how to write enough sentences to answer completely and tell stories.
Erica H. –
This is a great resource! I use it all the time in my first grade classroom. It is great for the students to use and practice throughout the year. This is also helpful for the students to practice and use at home.
Sara C. –
I love all your resources! This was great for my Grade 1/2 class’ unit on Narrative Writing
Better Together Literacy with Alexis Moore –
This resource was very helpful to use when teaching narrative writing. The notes for the teacher were great to gain clarity around each standard/goal of the unit. I also really liked the rubrics included. There are great options to use for scaffolding support – like the graphic organizers and sentence starters. This unit helped me meet the needs of the learners in my class. Thank you!
Amanda H. –
This was a good resource to use for my first-grade students.
Chelsea P. –
This is really helpful to use during distance learning with my reluctant writers. A great resource!
Morgan S. –
This resource was a great activity for students to work on!
Janice W. –
My students enjoyed this resource. It was easy to adapt to the needs of my students.
Sharon Burns –
This product was helpful for my students in writing a narrative.
Teaching Future Leaders –
This is a great resources to help students develop their writing skills!
ELIZABETH D. –
These were very cute the kids loved them made it fun for them
Alainna P. –
Thank you for this resource. It has so many examples and practice ideas, along with the anchor charts for students to refer to. Thanks!
Melissa Souza –
This was the perfect companion to our narrative writing unit. Thank you!
Caitlin P. –
Perfectly designed for creating a narrative writing piece–was well organized and easy for the students to follow and understand.
Hills school D. –
It is a helpful resource for writing I do recommend it.
Stephanie C. –
THe hamgurger visual made it easy for my students to undestand the structure of narrative writing.
Colleen H. –
This was great for morning work and homework as an independent practice. Thank you so much!
A DiLorenzo –
It was good but I was expecting a little more out of the prompts, and I wish it was more easily editable. I used this resource for online school with my grade 1 class!
Jenna Tomkins (verified owner) –
Writing has been such a struggle for me to teach. Coming across this resource has been a game changer! It has everything I needed to teach narrative writing! I HIGHLY recommend this for purchase!
Amanda K. –
great resource and carefully structured to allow for a good unit to teach from without supplementing