Attention grab?
Getting–and keeping–the reader’s attention is essential, and writers in Room 123 have begun learning how to use leads to do just that. Leads are sentences that are designed to grab the reader’s attention. Writers often use questions or quotations as leads.
Students began by rereading a personal narrative the class had written earlier this year:
Then they tried out different kinds of leads and voted on the one they thought was most effective:
Students will begin applying this learning to their own writing over the next few weeks.