I finally figured out that if my students knew how to elaborate in their essays, they would. I kept giving them sentence starters to help them, but that wasn't enough. Finally, after a few years of studying this, I have created Elaboration 101. Now that I'm teaching them how to elaborate, they are actually attempting to use the strategies in their writing. In this resource, you will be getting:•38 slide instructional power point that teaches students to use an anecdote, example, or explanati