Homeschool Other (Specialty) Assessment

ESL Newcomer Personal Narrative Writing - Entering & Emerging - Secondary ELL

By Curly Girl ELD Shop

Are you on the hunt for a writing project for your secondary ELL Newcomers that can be their first personal narrative? This helps your students write four paragraphs with support (organizer and checklist) and teaching/reviewing the writing process.

There are scaffolded supports for ENTERING and EMERGING students (Beginner and Intermediate ELLs).

With great graphics to show the personal narrative genre, visual prewriting, point of view, descriptive writing, past tense grammar practice and sentence frames, your Newcomers will be able to write their own personal narrative! 

Your Students Will:

  • Learn more vocabulary
  • Experience the writing process
  • Apply knowledge
  • Practice skills 
  • Have the opportunity to learn new skills
  • Work on developing writing skills
  • Have access to tools that will benefit them in writing

Help your ELL Newcomers tell their incredible stories!

What’s Included:

  • Follows the WIDA KEY USE: NARRATE objectives and formatting
  • Visual introduction to the genre of personal narrative writing
  • Options for different prompts with visual supports
  • Prewriting organizer
  • Descriptive Writing practice for places AND people
  • Point of View practice for 1st person
  • Transition words, vocabulary support and more!
  • Lesson learned examples and practice
  • Two pages of past tense activities
  • Chunking the story into 4 paragraphs
  • Final draft pages
  • Self Checklist with visuals for self editing
  • PDF Version for easy printing

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Yackeline G. wrote, “My students loved this activity. It was perfect for them because they are level 1 and 2. All the pictures, sentence frames and sentence starters are the scaffolding activity I was looking for. It helped them to write complete sentences that were going to be used to create their narrative stories. ”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Angela M. wrote, “This was great for my Newcomers. We finished it in about a week and I was thankful for the different scaffolds for my Entering and Emerging kiddos. Thanks.” 


This ESL writing resource will give them confidence and help them get through all the parts of a personal narrative. You don’t want to miss out on this resource. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

Check out these resources:

ESL Newcomer Spring Bundle

Access Test Prep Mega Bundle

$5.99