Writing a Personal Narrative: Brainstorming a Story for Kids #1

What is a personal narrative?

• Story about you

• Story about someone else

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Why should you brainstorm before you write?

• To help you come up the best ideas to write about

• To help you imagine the craziest most unimaginable ideas to write abouy

When thinking of an idea for a personal narrative...

• there are many ideas you can consider to write about

• there is only ONE idea you can write about

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When choosing your idea for your personal narrative you should

• write about what you know a lot about.

• write the about the first idea that you think of.

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Why would you want to brainstorm more than one idea?

• To see my ideas first and then choose the best one

• to play tick-tack-toe

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If she is going to write about her new dog, she needs to make sure her story has drama. Which element of fiction adds drama?

• the problem

• the solution

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