Writing Good Beginnings: Narrative Writing Hooks to Engage the Reader PowerPoint

Writing narrative hooks that engage the reader is a great writing skill. PowerPoint lesson focuses on writing hooks using three strategies to lead into a story and hook the reader, with student and professional examples. Three different writing strategies to engage the reader, grab their attention, and create great beginnings for a narrative account or expository essay, and will help students overcome writer's block, especially when preparing for state writing tests. Includes a slide with several other strategies for narrative hooks students can try as well, and a writing practice assignment to put the strategies learned to good use, and a slide for reflection on how the writing hooks worked. For use in a standards-based writing program which supports Common Core State Standards. Please see preview.
Did you know that you can use PowerPoints like this in video conferencing or Zoom for remote learning? You can share with your students in OneDrive and in Microsoft Teams, too. Just view in Slideshow mode. You can also upload to Google Drive and save as Google Slides, and it will automatically convert and you can use it in Google Classroom. It is editable and easy to make adjustments if necessary.

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