1. Narrative Writing Life acquires meaning in the telling

2. Professional Learning on Narrative Writing  Objectives – Teachers will:  Practice and review how to align the standard, objective, lesson, and focus question  Explore components of Narrative Writing  Engage in the use of Graphic Organizers to augment the Narrative Writing experience

3. Session Description  We will address the standard, an example objective, and focus questions  We will address what an actual lesson could look like  We will briefly reflect  We will provide a peer edit work sheet

4. Narrative Writing/Indicators THE STANDARD KCK11W110203 –Write narratives to develop real or imaginary experiences or events using effective technique, well chosen details, and well structured event sequences.

5. Narrative writing beyond the standard  Why do we ask kids to write narratives?

6. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott  “For me and most other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts” (p 22).

7. Faulkner’s Map  http://prezi.com/2vfcpnjwirf8/edit/ http://prezi.com/2vfcpnjwirf8/edit/

8. Tools for Exploration

9. Reflection  Would this strategy, or something similar, assist in getting kids to find meaning in narrative writing?  Once this introductory piece is complete, how might you build on this writing piece to move it beyond a shitty first draft?