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What Makes a Good Personal Narrative? A personal narrative is a true story about something that happened to the writer. Personal narratives have interesting topics, are told from the first-person point of view, and are arranged in time order.
Circle the letter of the ending that best completes each sentence. 1. A personal narrative is a true story that tells a. about an event that really happened to the writer. b. about a person who lived more than a hundred years ago. 2. Words such as I, me, we, and our show that the story is written in a. the third-person point of view. b. the first-person point of view. 3. The events in a personal narrative are a. made up so that they are more interesting. b. told in the order in which they happened, using time words. 4. When you write a personal narrative, choose a topic a. that will be interesting to your audience. b. that is related to sports. 5. A good topic for a personal narrative is a. a list of facts and dates that tell about a day in your life. b. a funny, exciting, or unusual event that really happened.
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I smiled as I watched it fly away across the yard.
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First, a butterfly gently floated into my room.
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When I opened my window this morning, an amazing thing happened.
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Then the butterfly seemed to wave to me as it flew back out the window. Next, it circled around me three times.
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