Writing a hook anchor chart

Writing and reading anchor chart ideas for the classroom.

Writing hooks

Happy Monday! We usually have our Monday Literacy time blocked off for teaching writing and writing skills, and I wanted to share what we did today! We are starting a personal narrative unit, and I wanted to show them how to really zoom in and narrow their topic so they would have an effective story. Enter-an anchor chart! We talked about how you can start with a big topic, and keep narrowing it down until you are talking about a specific moment. They then did this awesome sort so they could…

Sentence Starters and Transitions Anchor Chart for Informational Writing! Helps Grade 1-3 students transition from their topic sentence, to points, facts, and closing. Great support for independent writing.

3rd grade anchor chart for ways to hook your reader. We talked a lot about this, and gave several examples of ways to keep your reader intrigued in our writing. :)

Expository Writing Hooks Anchor Chart

Hook Your Reader grade 1 narrative writing anchor chart #writing #lucycalkins #anchorchart

How to Hook Your Reader!

🪝📝HOOK YOUR READER! This week, we are working on an opinion writing piece. Today we talked about why ‘hooks’ are so important to have in o… | Instagram

Check out these teaching materials for upper elementary students including task and reference cards on writing narrative hooks.

Expository Writing Hooks Anchor Chart

Free Download ~ Characteristics of a Good Hook | This Reading Mama (with great directions for teaching writing hooks from children's authors)

Language Arts anchor chart for helping students remember some of the many ways to "hook" their reader! @snipes6thgrade

Learning how to write a good "hook" is critical as students become more profecient writers. Get ten great hook ideas here, as well as an anchor chart and a fun writing prompt to start off the process!

Writing "hooks" anchor chart for our 4th grade realistic fiction unit.

While I am still stressing over deciding how I'm going to have my students plan their compositions this year, I know that the next step in the writing process will be teaching them how to HOOK the reader with a fabulous lead. This has always been one of my favorite lessons of the year because you can totally play up the "hook" theme, and the fourth graders really impress me with how talented they are at crafting their own leads. Two years ago, I dressed up as a fisherman (tackle-clad hat…

Hook Reader

Following a lightning-quick writer's craft mini-lesson (see yesterday's post for more details), the writers in Room 411 dive right into a graphic organizer for our opinion writing essays. The graphic organizer I designed for my students during our opinion writing unit has several parts so I'm going to break it down into three separate posts.