✔️ An essay-hooks lesson that teaches students how to start their essays with a Q.U.A.C.K. (quote, unexpected fact, anecdote, controversial statement, or kidding around)

✔️ A fun essay-hooks game to familiarize your students with the types of hooks they can use and give them valuable practice writing introductions

✔️ Handouts/worksheets to help students practice writing hooks with the Q.U.A.C.K. acronym

✔️ A body-paragraph lesson that teaches students to write paragraphs as strong as a T.R.E.E. (topic sentence, reasoning, evidence, explanation)

✔️ An engaging paragraph-sorting activity that helps your students understand the importance of sentence order in persuasive paragraphs

✔️ A citation sorting game that helps your students understand which statements need citations in an essay and which ones do not

✔️ A quotation-introduction activity that teaches your students how to introduce (or T.R.A.P.) a quote from another source with a "that" clause, reporting verb, "according to . . . " or part of their own sentence

✔️ An essay-support lesson that teaches students to support their claims with B.A.G.E.L.S. (background information, analogies, groundbreaking experiments, expert opinions, logical reasoning, and statistics)

✔️ A thoughtful ordering activity that helps students learn to choose relevant evidence that supports their claims

✔️ A highly engaging movie-quote paraphrasing activity that brings awareness to common paraphrasing mistakes and how to paraphrase another source ethically

✔️ A hilarious transition-word game that helps your students understand the different roles of transition words and phrases that they can use in their writing

✔️ A conclusion lesson that teaches students to slow down and conclude their essays like a S.L.O.T.H. (summary, lesson, outcome, thesis restatement, or hypothesis)