Explanatory — Draft the opening

Teacher edition · Grade 7 · Lesson 28 · Road-map project

Writing Book 7 · sheet 67

Open with the thing itself. You knew this last year.

2. Your turn

In your notebook: draft the opening for your own piece, double-spaced so there is room to correct.

Below is what a full, correct answer looks like. Children's wording will differ and should — mark the thing this lesson taught, not everything at once.

Read the one sentence you are most sure of.model — accept any answer that does the same job

3. Before you finish

Read the one sentence you are most sure of.

Watch forThe question does not have to appear as a question mark. It has to be answerable and it has to be the one the piece answers.