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Readers: Identifying and Writing Effective Opening "Hooks"
|Grades||3 – 5| |Lesson Plan Type||Standard Lesson| |Estimated
Time||Four 45-minute sessions| Writing a catchy introduction or
"hook" often eludes even the most proficient writers. In this
lesson, students work in pairs to read introductory passages
from several fiction texts and rate them for effectiveness.
Then, the teacher guides the class in categorizing their
favorite "hooks" according to the author's strategy (e.g.,
question, exaggeration, exclamation, description). Strat