Student Facing Checklist for Narrative Writing, Grades K-10

Student Facing Checklist for Narrative Writing, Grades K-10OverallLeadTransitionsEndingOrganizationElaborationNarrative ChecklistGrade 3StructureI told the story bit by bit.The beginning shows a person saying or doingsomething.I told my story in order by using phrases like alittle later, or after that.I chose the action, talk or feeling that would makea good ending, and worked to write it well.I worked on the beginning, middle, and end of mystory.DevelopmentI worked to show what was happening to (and in)my characters.Yes!StartingToNot YetDescriptionI didn’t just tell my story, I wrote my story in waysthat got readers to picture what was happening andto bring my story to life.Spelling andPunctuationLanguage ConventionsI used what I know about word families andspelling rules to help me spell and edit.I punctuated dialogue correctly, with commas andquotation marks. I used punctuation to fix my runonsentences.I wrote in ways that helped readers read withexpression, reading some parts quickly, someslowly, some parts in one sort of voice and otherin another.©Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grade by Grade: A Yearlong Workshop Curriculum, Grades K-8,by Lucy Calkins and Colleagues (Heinemann, 2013/2014)For distribution only in TCRWP schoolsDRAFT