This document outlines an 18-session unit of study for a third grade personal narrative writing unit with a focus on turning points. Each session includes objectives like minilessons, student writing time, and conferencing. Sessions cover topics such as using important moments, first and last times, emotion, leads, drafting, revision, and editing to help students craft a personal narrative with a turning point in their writing.

1. Grade Three
Unit of Study Two – Personal Narrative with Turning Points
Session Notebook Section Folder Conferring
1. Immersion List your noticings
 Minilesson
Encourage
Writerly Life
2. Immersion cont. Continue to list your
noticings
 Minilesson
Encourage
Check-in
3. What Do You
Notice?
 Minilesson Encourage
Writerly life
Check-in
4. Using Important
Moments
 What Should I
Write About
 Writing
4-5 Students
5. Using First and
Last Times
 What Should I
Write About
 Writing
4-5 Students
6. Using Emotion  What Should I
Write About
 Writing
4-5 Students
7. Conferencing and
What the Writer Should
Do
Guidelines for
Conferring
 Minilesson
Encourage
8. Being a Good
Listener for Your Partner
Student Drafts 4-5 Students
9. What Am I Trying
to Tell the Reader?
Student Drafts 4-5 Students
10. Leads
 Create an anchor
chart
 Minilesson Student Drafts 4-5 Students
11. Leads
 Continue creating
an anchor chart
 Minilesson Student Drafts 4-5 Students
12. Drafting the
Mental Movie
 Writing Student Drafts 4-5 Students
13. Then and Now  Minilesson Student Drafts 4-5 Students
14. Making Mountains  Minilesson Story Mountain 4-5 Students
15. Modeling
Narrative Writing Using
Thinking Maps
This lesson is optional
16. Revision  Minilesson
Revise vs. Edit
Student Drafts 4-5 Students
17. Editing  Minilesson
Revise vs. Edit
Student Drafts 4-5 Students
18. Final Hoorah! Student Drafts NA