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Personal Narrative Prompts

3rd Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 3.19*

Students write about their own experiences. Students are expected to write about important personal experiences.

Alabama Course of Study Standards: 33

Write personal or fictional narratives with a logical plot (sequence of events), characters, transitions, and a sense of closure.

Arizona Academic Standards: 3.W.3.a

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.W.3.3a

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE3W3a

Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS): W.3.3.a

Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards: W.3.3a

North Carolina - Standard Course of Study: W.3.3.b

Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 3W3a

Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters.

Tennessee Academic Standards: 3.W.TTP.3.a

Establish a situation by using a narrator, including characters, and organizing an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

Wisconsin Academic Standards: W.3.1

Compose reflective, formal, and creative writing, which may happen simultaneously or independently, for a variety of high-stakes and low-stakes purposes.

Arkansas Academic Standards: W.3.3.B

Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.

Arizona Academic Standards: 3.W.3.b

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.W.3.3b

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE3W3b

Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS): W.3.3.b

Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards: W.3.3b

North Carolina - Standard Course of Study: W.3.3.c

Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 3W3b

Use descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.

Tennessee Academic Standards: 3.W.TTP.3.b

Use dialogue and/or descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events, or to show the response of characters to situations.

Wisconsin Academic Standards: W.3.2.a

Opinion pieces in which the student supports a point of view about a topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, list reasons that support the opinion.

Arizona Academic Standards: 3.W.3.c

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.W.3.3c

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE3W3c

Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS): W.3.3.c

Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards: W.3.3c

North Carolina - Standard Course of Study: W.3.3.d

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 3W3c

Tennessee Academic Standards: 3.W.TTP.3.c

Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.

Wisconsin Academic Standards: W.3.3.c

Word Choice (including domain specific): Use words familiar to the student for emphasis, addition, contrast, or order to connect categories or information, and to convey meaning.

Arkansas Academic Standards: W.3.3.E

Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.

Arizona Academic Standards: 3.W.3.d

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.W.3.3d

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE3W3d

Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS): W.3.3.d

Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards: W.3.3d

North Carolina - Standard Course of Study: W.3.3.e

Tennessee Academic Standards: 3.W.TTP.3.d

Provide a sense of closure.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 3W3d

Provide a conclusion.

Wisconsin Academic Standards: W.3.2.c

Convey events, real or imagined, through narrative or short stories to develop experiences or events using descriptive details and clear event sequences to establish a situation and introduce a narrator or characters. Use dialogue and description of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.M

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.N

Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.O

Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.P

Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally, using temporal words and phrases to signal event order; provide a sense of closure.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.Q

Choose words and phrases for effect.
  • E03.D.2.1.1 - Choose words and phrases for effect.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.R

Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
  • E03.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.

  • E03.D.1.1.2 - Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.

  • E03.D.1.1.3 - Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).

  • E03.D.1.1.4 - Form and use regular and irregular verbs.

  • E03.D.1.1.5 - Form and use the simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk).

  • E03.D.1.1.6 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. *

  • E03.D.1.1.7 - Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.

  • E03.D.1.1.8 - Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

  • E03.D.1.1.9 - Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.

  • E03.D.1.2.1 - Capitalize appropriate words in titles.

  • E03.D.1.2.2 -Use commas in addresses.

  • E03.D.1.2.3 - Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.

  • E03.D.1.2.4 - Form and use possessives.

  • E03.D.1.2.5 - Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).


  • E03.D.1.2.6 - Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words

Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.3.C.1.2

Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical sequence of events, appropriate descriptions, dialogue, a variety of transitional words or phrases, and an ending.

Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.3.V.1.1

Use grade-level academic vocabulary appropriately in speaking and writing.

Arkansas Academic Standards: 3.W.3.S

Write a narrative with a logical plot (sequence of events, characters, and setting).

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