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These “personal narratives” are true stories that students wrote about experiences from their own lives.The kids’ first step was to list “clear, small moments” that they remembered. Over the course of the unit, they selected some of these to write about.After writing anywhere between 3-10 personal narratives, students selected 2 to revise and take to final form.During the revising process, students needed to make sure that they:--”zoomed in” on a clear, small moment,--used lots of details,--began their stories with an interesting lead,--etc.This website was made ALMOST ENTIRELY by students from the 2/3 class. After writing and illustrating their stories, each student did his/her own typing.Then, a team of students was put in charge of scanning classmates’ illustrations.Another team typed up students “quotes” about their writing.The “Garage Band” group recorded students reading their stories.The “iWeb” group assembled the typed stories, audio files, quotes and sca