Personal Experience Writing Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: W.K.1, W.K.5

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The focus here is our telling us about your world. We ask students to share their real life with us. What have they experienced in their short little lives? Sometimes it will amaze you as to how deep these children think into the smallest details. This will eventually lead students to writing a full fledge personal narrative essay. Those are the types of essays that they ask you to write for a job interview or college admissions application. It all starts with simply sharing a bit of your world with others through your writing. In this collection of worksheets students will receive a prompt that helps them be able to analyze their day.

Personal Experience Writing Worksheets:

Sammy and Sid Sloth - What are Sammy and Sid Sloth talking about? Fill in the speech bubbles and make your own comic.

Dialogue - What are Sammy and Sid Sloth talking about? Fill in the speech bubbles and make your own comic.

Keeping a Journal - Ask an adult to help you write what you did yesterday, today, and what you will do tomorrow.

The Rufus Chronicles - What are Rufus and his parents talking about? Fill in the speech bubbles and make your own comic.

Rufus Journal - Rufus is writing in his journal. What is he writing about? Fill in the thought bubbles and make your own comic.

My Favorite Thing - The floor is yours. Draw a picture for us and tell us all about your favorite thing in the whole world.

My Family - Drawing a blank? Tell us all about your family and how you view everyone in it.

Thanksgiving - This year I am thankful for... This worksheet goes great with a slice of turkey and yams.

Snowday! - What Did You Do On Your Snow Day? This is more for our friends up North.

Guess What Happened? - Use the panels below to write about something that happened to you recently. Draw pictures and use the speech bubbles to describe what happened.

What I Do After School - What do you do? Tell us about any activities that you do regularly.

My Costume - Write about what you are going to be for Halloween. Do you have a cool costume this year?

Dream Vacation - If you could go anywhere in the world for vacation, where would you go? Draw a picture of yourself on vacation. Then describe what you are doing.

My Perfect Day - What would it consist of? Would you eat breakfast on that day?

Goofy Gorilla - What is Goofy Gorilla saying? Fill in the bubbles to make your own comic.

Tips for Personal Experience Writing


Here are some tips for personal experience writing:

Understand what a personal essay is before writing your personal experience, you should know that you will be writing a personal essay. A personal essay is non-fiction that narrates the events of real life. It should contain an organized outline that follows the proper structure of the personal essay. You can do your research on how to write a personal essay that would contain your personal experiences.


Find a compelling topic


Before writing, it is important to have a compelling topic. You can think of the most interesting experience that you have had. The readers are mostly interested in fun and engaging topics. You can also write about an incident that you witnessed and how it affected you. The main idea is to stick to your own life and write your own experiences.


Start strong


The starting of the essay decides the impact of your essay. You have to start strong. You can start by engaging the readers so that they will read your essay further. An interesting idea is to start with a question. Questions are intriguing and they spark the interest of the readers.


Create an outline


Every type of essay should have an outline. Outlines help in keeping the text organized and in place. If you are describing a chain of events, then you can list the events in a certain position. The basic structure of the outline is starting, middle, and ending. It is up to you which information you want in the beginning and which in the end.


Narrow your focus


Broader topics are usually less impactful. They are not as appealing as the ones with specific details. If you have multiple experiences that you would like to share through writing, then select the one that you like the most. It is also important to keep your focus narrow when writing about the event. You don't have to mention the unnecessary and extra details as they are boring.


Conclude strong


The conclusion should be strong. It should leave the readers thinking about your essay hours after they have read it. You can end it with a strong quote or a tragic ending.