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Complete constructive comments on two classmates' narratives if not finished in class. Use the feedback protocol provided.

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Students respond to: 'What is one challenge you've overcome, and what did it teach you?' (5 minutes)

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Students will compose a personal narrative (minimum 150 words) about overcoming a challenge, demonstrating their ability to develop real experiences into written stories (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3).

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Students respond to: 'What was challenging about sharing your story today? What made you feel safe or supported in sharing?'

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Teacher observes student engagement during brainstorming and writing process, noting who might need additional support.

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Review peer feedback received and make at least three meaningful revisions to your narrative.

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Teacher demonstrates writing a 150-word personal narrative, thinking aloud about the writing process and storytelling elements.

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Narrative writing for High School & College

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Students will engage in collaborative discussions by providing constructive, supportive feedback to at least two peers' narratives (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1).

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Class discussion: What common themes or lessons emerged from our stories? How did hearing others' experiences impact our understanding?

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Students will read and comment on two peers' stories using the 'Two Stars and a Wish' format: two specific compliments and one thoughtful suggestion.

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Create a brief video or audio recording of your story using WeVideo or similar tool, incorporating emotional elements through tone and pacing.

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WeVideo Academy | Tutorials and How-To Information

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Find tutorials and information about video editing and WeVideo features. Learn how to make video edits, add music to movies, or find project ideas.

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Quick tutorial on using Google Docs Voice Typing and Microsoft's Immersive Reader for accessibility. Students can practice using these tools during the writing process.

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You can use your voice to type and edit your document in Google Docs and your speaker notes and captions in Google Slides.

This feature works with the latest versions of:

When you turn on voice typing or captions, your web browser controls the speech-to-text service. It determines how your speech is processed and then sends the text to Google Docs or Google Slides.

Tip: If this feature is not enabled in your organization, it may have been turned off by your administrator.

Step 1: Turn on your microphone

To use voice typing or voice commands, your computer microphone needs to be on and working.

Devices and microphones vary, so check your computer manual for instructions. Microphone settings are typically in the System Preferences on a Mac, or the Control Panel on a PC.

Step 2: Use voice typing

Type with your voice

Start voice typing in a document

1. Check that your microphone works.

2. Open a document in Google Docs with a Chrome browser.

3. Click Tools Voice typing. A microphone box appears.

4. When you're ready to speak, click the microphone.

5. Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace (see below for more information on using punctuation).

6. When you're done, click the microphone again.

Start voice typing in Slides speaker notes

1. Check that your microphone works.

2. Open a presentation in Google Slides with a Chrome browser.

3. Click Tools Voice type speaker notes. The speaker notes open, and a microphone box appears.

4. When you're ready to speak, click the microphone.

5. Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace (see below for more information on using punctuation).

6. When you're done, click the microphone again.

Correct mistakes while voice typing

If you make a mistake while you're typing with your voice, you can move your cursor to the mistake and fix it without turning off the microphone.

After you correct the mistake, move the cursor back to where you want to continue.

To see a list of suggestions, right-click words underlined in gray.

Languages that work with voice typing

Voice typing works in these languages and accents:

Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Algeria), Arabic (Bahrain), Arabic (Egypt), Arabic (Israel), Arabic (Jordan), Arabic (Kuwait), Arabic (Lebanon), Arabic (Morocco), Arabic (Oman), Arabic (Palestine), Arabic (Qatar), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Arabic (Tunisia), Arabic (United Arab Emirates), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bahasa Indonesia, Basque, Bengali (Bangladesh), Bengali (India), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (Ghana), English (India), English (Ireland), English (Kenya), English (New Zealand), English (Nigeria), English (Philippines), English (South Africa), English (Tanzania), English (UK), English (US), Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Italian (Italy), Italian (Switzerland), Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Malaysian, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Sinhala, Spanish, Spanish (Argentina), Spanish (Bolivia), Spanish (Chile), Spanish (Colombia), Spanish (Costa Rica), Spanish (Ecuador), Spanish (El Salvador), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (US), Spanish (Guatemala), Spanish (Honduras), Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Nicaragua), Spanish (Panama), Spanish (Paraguay), Spanish (Peru), Spanish (Puerto Rico), Spanish (Uruguay), Spanish (Venezuela), Sundanese, Swahili (Kenya), Swahili (Tanzania), Swedish, Tamil (India), Tamil (Malaysia), Tamil (Singapore), Tamil (Sri Lanka), Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu (India), Urdu (Pakistan), Vietnamese, Zulu.

Add punctuation

You can use different phrases to add punctuation to your text. Punctuation might not be available in every language:

Period

Comma

Exclamation point

Question mark

New line

New paragraph

Step 3: Use voice commands

After you start voice typing, you can use commands to edit and format your document. For example, "Select paragraph," "italics," or "Go to the end of the line."

Tips:

Voice commands are available only in English. The account language and document language must both be English.

Voice commands are not available in Slides speaker notes.

Select text

To select text, say these commands:

Select [word or phrase]

Select all

Select all matching text

Select list item

Select list items at current level

Select next character

Select next [number] characters

Select last character

Select last [number] characters

Select line

Select next line

Select next [number] lines

Select last line

Select last [number] lines

Select paragraph

Select next paragraph

Select next [number] paragraphs

Select last paragraph

Select last [number] paragraphs

Select word

Select next word

Select next [number] words

Select last word

Select last [number] words

Deselect

Unselect

Select none

Format your document

To format your document, say these commands:

Text formatting

Apply heading [1-6]

Apply normal text

Apply subtitle

Apply title

Bold

Italicize

Italics

Strikethrough

Subscript

Superscript

Underline

Uppercase

Title case

Lowercase

Text color and highlighting

Text color [color]

Highlight

Highlight [color]

Background color [color]

Remove highlight

Remove background color

Tip: The colors available are: red, red berry, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, cornflower blue, purple, magenta, black, white, and gray. For all colors except black and white, you can add "light" or "dark" along with numbers 1-3 (for gray, 1-4), such as "dark purple 3." If you say "highlight" by itself, the highlighting color is yellow.

Font size

Decrease font size

Increase font size

Font size [6-400]

Make bigger

Make smaller

Paragraph formatting

Decrease indent

Increase indent

Line spacing [1-100]

Line spacing double

Line spacing single

Alignment

Align center

Align justified

Align left

Align right

Center align

Left align

Right align

Columns

Apply 1 column

Apply 2 columns

Apply 3 columns

Column options

Insert column break

Lists

Create bulleted list

Create numbered list

Insert bullet

Insert number

Remove formatting

Clear formatting

Remove formatting

Remove bold

Remove italics

Remove strikethrough

Remove underline

Edit your document

To edit your document, say these commands:

Copy

Cut

Paste

Delete

Delete last word

Delete [word or phrase]

Insert link [then say the URL you want to use]

Copy link

Delete link

Insert table of contents

Delete table of contents

Update table of contents

Insert comment [then say your comment]

Insert bookmark

Insert equation

Insert footer

Insert footnote

Insert header

Insert horizontal line

Insert page break

Tips:

If you say "Delete" by itself, you delete the word before the cursor.

If you select the text of a URL and say "Insert link," the selected text becomes a hyperlink.

Add and edit tables

To add and edit tables, say these commands:

Insert table

Insert table [1-20] rows by [1-20] columns

Insert row

Insert column

Insert new column

Insert new column on the left

Insert new row

Insert new row above

Insert new row below

Delete column

Delete row

Delete table

Remove column

Remove row

Remove table

Exit table

Move around your document

To move around your document, say these commands:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Example:
Go to end of paragraph

Go to

Move to

end of

start of

paragraph

column

line

row

table

document

Go to

Move to

next

previous

character

column

footnote

formatting change

heading

heading [1-6]

image

line

link

list

list item

misspelling

paragraph

row

table

word

page

Go

Move

forward

backward

[number] characters

[number] words

Go

Move

up

down

[number] lines

[number] paragraphs

Scroll

Stop voice typing

To stop voice typing, say "Stop listening."

Resume voice typing

To move the cursor to the end of the paragraph and start voice typing again, say "Resume."

To move the cursor to the end of a particular word or phrase, say "Resume with [word or phrase]."

Here are all the commands you can say to resume voice typing:

Resume

Resume with [word or phrase]

Go to the end of the paragraph

Move to the end of the paragraph

Go to the end of the line

Move to the end of the line

Go to [word]

Commands to open help

To open a list of voice commands in your document, say these commands:

Voice typing help

Voice commands list

See all voice commands

Speak (for accessibility)

To use these commands, turn on screen reader support. It's best to wear headphones so the screen reader feedback isn't typed into your document.

Speak cursor location

Speak from cursor location

Speak selection

Speak selection formatting

Speak table row and column headers

Speak table cell location

Speak table column header

Speak table row header

Troubleshoot

If voice typing isn't working, try these steps.

"We're having trouble hearing you"

If you see an error message that says "We're having trouble hearing you," try the following:

Move to a quiet room.

Plug in an external microphone.

Adjust the input volume on your microphone.

The microphone isn't working

If you can't get the microphone to work on your computer, try the following:

Make sure that the microphone isn't broken.

Check your microphone settings in your computer system preferences.

Check that your microphone is plugged in and is not being used by another application.

Move to a quiet room.

Restart your computer.

Voice commands aren't working

If voice commands aren't working, try the following:

Speak more slowly and clearly

Pause before and after each command. The text of your command might show in the document for a moment. For example, if you say "select all," the words "select all" show up before your text is selected.

The microphone shows a bubble containing the most recent command. Verify that Docs or Slides heard the right command. If not, you can simply say "Undo."

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You can use your voice to type and edit your document in Google Docs and your speaker notes and captions in Google Slides. This feature works with the latest versions of: Chrome Edge Safari

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ELL and speech-impaired students will successfully utilize voice-to-text and translation tools to participate fully in writing and discussion activities.

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Self-assessment rubric for students to verify their narrative meets requirements: length, clear challenge, personal reflection, and proper conventions.

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Using Padlet's collaboration features, students create a mind map of their challenge, including key moments, feelings, and lessons learned. Partners can add encouraging comments or questions.

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Students draft their 150-word narratives using Google Docs and preferred accessibility tools. Teacher circulates to provide support.

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Advanced writers can incorporate dialogue, sensory details, and literary devices into their narratives, aiming for 250+ words.

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Struggling writers can use a narrative template with sentence starters and guided questions to structure their story.