I think that in writing such a paragraph, the instructor is probably looking for the emergence of a personalized voice in the writing. I would ask the child to compose about fifteen sentences or thoughts about their trip to Disneyland, all of them beginning with the personalized pronoun. Tell the child to follow each "I" with a verb or some type of action that forces their memory to be present. For example, "I remember hugging Mickey Mouse" or "I remember that it was hot." If the child can start to compose these "I" statements connected to memory, the narrative paragraph starts to develop. Looking at the fifteen created, the child can then pick their best 10 and rewrite them as a cohesive paragraph.
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