Writing Introductions (Leads): Opinion, Informative, and Narrative Text

This Common Core mentor text writing unit teaches student 8 different ways to write introductions and start their stories with voice. Each way is detailed out in a week long sequence that has students connect topic/story to introduction sentence and practice writing each type. Each way also has 3 mentor text samples for each type of introduction.

The introduction writing includes:

Writing questions as introductions

Writing number statements as introductions

Writing dynamic description as an introduction

Using the power of 3 to introduce a piece

Using onomatopoeia to introduce writing

Using a definition to introduce writing

Writing similes as introduction

Using a combination of the methods to introduce a topic/story

This teaches kids to write introductions in a simple, explicit manner and gives them 8 ways to introduce a story/topic to add their writer's toolbox.

UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2015

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