Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing Literary Text With an Engaging Story Line
A learning module that teaches students how to write an engaging literary text in six lessons: Introduction, The Narrative Hook, Setting, Conflict, Plot, and Ending.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Hook Those Fish!
Learners will read chapter and picture books to discover how the author "hooked" the reader. Students will then practice using the same strategies in their own writing.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Identifying and Writing Effective Opening "Hooks"
Contains plans for four lessons that teach students to write effective "hooks," or beginnings, to their writing. They read the introductions of fiction passages and analyze the techniques they use before applying these techniques in...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Truth Be Told
This lesson plan extends student understanding of the concept of "truisms" and "writing hooks" to introduce writings. Gretchen Bernabei's Reviving the Essay, the book Fox, written by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks, will be read aloud and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing Leads in the Middle School Class
Great instructional activity in which students read various examples of "leads," or attention-grabbing introductions, in literature. Students then contemplate and develop their own interesting "lead" for a short story and share it with...
Other
Amnesty International Kids
Delve into the world of Amnesty International Kids in English or Spanish. This site introduces you to "the basics" of Amnesty International. It gives you a letter writing guide and some other activities to hook into.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introductions: Lesson 4
This lesson introduces introductions. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Introductions."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Clarity: Introductory Sentences: Lesson 2
This lesson goes over the importance of clarity in the first sentence of a paragraph.