ABSTRACT
Narrative writing is a type of writing that allows the author to tell a story or describe events. There are three points of view from which to write. First person is when events are described through your eyes. Second person is when the author addresses the audience directly. And third person is an objective point of view where the author becomes absent. Six common types of narrative writing are: Biographies, autobiographies, personal narratives, memoirs, creative writing, and news stories. The same writing process used to create narrative and other types of creative fiction transfers to more professional types of writing. This chapter describes nine different activities that can be used with biographies and personal narratives. It also presents 14 different scaffolds that can be used as temporary structures as students learn different forms of narrative writing.
