Second Grade Narrative Writing Lessons {2nd Grade Writing Workshop Unit 5}

Narrative writing lessons (realistic fiction and comic strips), writing rubrics, printable writing paper, posters and visuals, graphic organizers for planning, and more - for second grade students!

This 5-week unit will help you teach your second-grade students to write comic strips and realistic fiction!

The lessons begin by having students make comic strips. Through learning about comic strips, students practice key skills like writing dialogue and including characters’ thoughts. Then, students move on to writing realistic fiction books.

This unit is designed to be taught toward the middle or end of the year but can be used anytime you want to teach students how to write narratives. 

In this unit, students will learn how to:
- Create comic strips with speech bubbles, thought bubbles, and temporal words
- Plan and write realistic fiction
- Create a strong beginning and ending to a story
- Describe the setting and characters of a story
- Add details and vivid verbs to their writing to show what characters did
- Use dialogue to tell what characters said
- Use details to show how characters felt, and how their feelings changed throughout the story
- Use temporal words to show the order of events and passage of time
- Correctly use writing conventions, including apostrophes for possessives and contractions
- Combine sentences and vary sentence beginnings
- Revise and edit independently and with a partner

This unit includes:
- 27 detailed minilessons that will last about 5-6 weeks
- Daily language arts/grammar exercises that complement the minilessons
- Clear unit goals, daily objectives, and Common Core alignment
- Posters, visual aids, and materials to go with the minilessons (all color materials also have black and white versions included)
- Printable writing paper
- A writing stages display and materials to make a genre bulletin board
- A list of mentor texts to accompany the unit
- FAQs and important information to help you set up the writing workshop
- Rubrics, anecdotal note forms, and other materials to help you get organized 
- A narrative writing rubric that you can use throughout the year
- 162 total pages of materials and resources

This is the fifth unit in an 8-unit writing curriculum series for second grade. CLICK HERE to view the complete curriculum.

Please contact Alison at Alison@LearningAtThePrimaryPond.com if you have any questions about the materials!