Explanatory — Draft the middle

Teacher edition · Grade 8 · Lesson 28 · Road-map project

Writing Book 8 · sheet 67

Every point supported, every support sourced, every source findable.

2. Your turn

In your notebook: draft the middle 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 forTrue, interesting and irrelevant is the hardest paragraph to cut and the most necessary. Cut it with them, not for them.