Description

This resource prepares students for writing a text-dependent narrative and is designed to meet the expectations of various state writing tests.

Throughout this engaging writing unit, students will read a text and plan a fictional story based on the text(s), incorporating details and information from the text(s) into their own writing.

Included in this resource:

• Teacher guide
• RAFT response acronym
• Narrative transitions bookmark
• Text annotation bookmark
• Rules of dialogue scaffold
• Text-based narrative writing checklist
• Prompt analysis checklist
• Engaging texts
• Brainstorming and planning graphic organizers
• Rubric
• Exemplars
• Publishing pages

This resource includes two complete text-based narrative writing tasks.