Fall Launch — Heart-Map, Workshop, and the Year of Narrating

Welcome-back share: each child holds their G2 published opinion-piece and names one craft move they used. Teacher names the bridge: 'You wrote what you THINK. This year you tell the story of what HAPPENED to you — moments that matter.'

• Affirm specific opinion-craft moves by name (Tier-2 verb, prep phrase, etc.)
• Bridge explicitly: 'Opinion told what you THINK. Narrative tells what you LIVED — and why it mattered.'
• Show MG-1 unit-opener poster and read it aloud as a guided tour of the term

M-3-F-WR-01-C Chart

Photo-quality reproduction of MG-10 wall chart at 18x24: 6-column grid PLAN | REHEARSE | DRAFT | REVISE | PEER-EDIT | PUBLISH, with each column header in dyslexic-friendly font, a 1-sentence definition below, and a small icon (heart-map / mouth / pencil / green-pencil / two-children / book). Each child's name printed on a magnetic tile placed in the PLAN column. Print-ready.

MG-10 Chart

Workshop drafting-cycle status-of-the-class wall chart: a 6-column grid PLAN | REHEARSE | DRAFT | REVISE | PEER-EDIT | PUBLISH. Each child has a small magnetic name-tile that they move into the column matching their current stage at the start of each workshop block. Each column has a 1-sentence definition and a tiny icon. Print-ready 18x24.

This year you are a NARRATOR — the voice telling a story from inside your own life. We don't tell every story; we pick SMALL MOMENTS. A small moment is short — maybe ten minutes long, maybe two minutes — but something happened that mattered. A personal narrative has FOUR PARTS (point at MG-2). PART 1 — ORIENTATION (blue): who, where, when, and one sense detail to pull the reader in. PART 2 — COMPLICATION (yellow): a problem or surprise or change. PART 3 — PEAK or REALIZATION (red): the heart-pounding center, where the change happens or the meaning lands. PART 4 — RESOLUTION (green): how things settled after. To find small moments worth telling, we use a HEART-MAP. Your heart-map is a paper heart with wedges — each wedge holds a tiny drawing or phrase of a person, place, object, or moment that matters to you. The heart-map is your TOPIC BANK for the whole year. Today we build it. Pick a Sharpie name on the back. Inside, draw 8 to 12 wedges. Each wedge is ONE SPECIFIC SEED — not 'family' but 'the time Grandma taught me to roll out dough on the green countertop.' Specific. Small. Yours.

• Notice every wedge has a place, a person or object, and one specific thing that happened. Not 'family.' Not 'school.' One MOMENT.

  model Wedge 1: drawing of a small loaf of bread + label 'Grandma teaching me dough, age 6.' Wedge 2: drawing of a bus window + 'first day at new school, raining.' Wedge 3: drawing of a fishing pier + 'the day I caught nothing and Dad laughed kindly.' Wedge 4: drawing of a stage curtain + 'the recital where my hands shook.' Specific. Tiny. Mine.

  prompt Teacher models a sample heart-map on board.

• What makes a SMALL MOMENT different from a category like 'family'?
• Point to one of the four boxes on MG-2 and say what goes there.

M-3-F-WR-01-A Chart

Reproduction of MG-2 at 11x17: 2x2 grid of color-coded boxes — ORIENTATION (blue, who/where/when icon), COMPLICATION (yellow, problem icon), PEAK (red, heart-pounding icon), RESOLUTION (green, settle icon). Below each box: the matching sentence-frame in dyslexic-friendly font. Used by teacher to point during the narrative tour. Print-ready, primary colors only.

MG-2 Chart Physical / non-image

Personal-narrative 4-box anchor poster: four labeled boxes in a 2x2 grid — ORIENTATION (blue, with a who/where/when icon), COMPLICATION (yellow, with a problem/uh-oh icon), PEAK or REALIZATION (red, with a heart-pounding icon), RESOLUTION (green, with a settle-back icon). Below each box: a sentence-frame ('It was ___. I was ___.' / 'But then ___.' / 'That was the moment ___.' / 'After that, ___.'). Print-ready 11x17, dyslexic-friendly font.

• Each child builds their own heart-map. Begin with 4 wedges; add more if time. Use the MG-14 prompt-prime cards only if stuck.

  scaffold Heart at 1.5x; prompt-prime photo cards
• Share one wedge with a partner. Partner asks: 'What HAPPENED in that moment?'

  scaffold Sentence frame: 'My wedge is ___ — the time ___.'

M-3-F-WR-01-B Illustration

Reference image of a completed Grade-3 heart-map: a large red paper heart divided into 10 wedges, each containing a tiny pencil drawing and a 5-10 word label ('Grandma + dough', 'fishing pier with Dad', 'first day at new school', 'recital hands shaking', 'lost-and-found bin', 'soccer goal in mud', 'backyard tomato split open', 'piano keyboard', 'beach footprint at sunrise', 'pet at vet'). Print-ready 8.5x11, classroom annotation style.

• Pick ONE wedge. Write one sentence that names the orientation: WHO, WHERE, and WHEN.
• Place your name-tile on MG-10 status-of-class chart in the PLAN column.

• Hold up your heart-map.
• Predict: tomorrow we pick ONE wedge and zoom in.

• At dinner tonight, ask one family member to share ONE small moment from their childhood. Listen for the four parts. Bring back one specific detail (a sound, a smell, a sentence someone said) on a sticky note.