Narrative & Story Writing IEP Goal Bank | Templates & Examples

Story telling is a key standard in the Common Core under their narrative writing sequences. And that is what narrative writing is at its heart– story telling. It starts at the lowest levels with students just recounting multiple events in sequence. It builds from there to something rich with a beginning, middle, and end, action and dialogue, and rich vocabulary and description. But at its heart, it is still just story telling, a skill that students need to be able to recount to their families what happened at school that day and to their friends about what happened during lunch. This is a skill whose utility goes beyond the English classroom and into life– and that we have goals on it at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. However, for older students who are doing non-fiction writing across their classes, our paragraph and essay goals might be more useful. Maybe not as much fun, but possibly more practical for classes.