

This Personal Narrative W.R.A.P. unit was designed to strengthen students' writing skills beyond meeting state and district writing objectives. Students will create four books: a writers' notebook, a journal, an expandable dictionary and a final class published book that contains a collection of student work. Writing tools will be introduced, reviewed, and applied to student writing. Some tools that I created and designed to help my students strengthen their writing skills include: a dictionary entry template, a binder word wall sheet, a scoring rubric that is aligned to our state's scoring guide, a writing diamond graphic organizer, templates to guide students in writing reading responses and templates for five paragraph narrative writing; a revision and editing checklist' and a peer-editing or self-editing guide sheet. To further assist students with brainstorming writing ideas for prompt driven writing, I introduce a 1-2-3 method that asks students to list experiences they had at home, school and other settings that related to the prompt. This unit can easily be expanded, altered and adjusted to meet the writing needs of other grade level classrooms. This unit is adjustable for differentiated instruction that addresses and accommodates the diverse ability levels that exist in any given classroom.