Narrative Writing
“Narrative writing conveys experience, either real or imaginary. It can be used for many purposes, such as to inform, instruct, persuade, or entertain. Students produce narratives that take the form of creative fictional stories, memoirs, anecdotes, and autobiographies.”
Common Core Standards, English Language Arts Appendix A, pg. 23
Through narrative writing students share what happened in their lives or the lives of others.
Narrative writing includes creative writing and poetry. Narrative writing can be true or fictional.
A piece of narrative writing for a first grader might be a story, one paragraph in length with a sense of beginning, middle, and end.
For an eighth grade student, the narrative assignment might be multiple pages, and include visual details of scenes, dialogue to develop characters, and event sequence to create tension.
