Homeschool Writing and Then Some
Ever wish you had someone who could hold your hand through this homeschool journey and help you know what’s important and what might trip you up? That’s what this podcast aims to do, especially as it pertains to preparing middle/high school kids to be successful writers. Because teaching teens to write can be tricky. What exactly are you supposed to teach? And how are you supposed to teach it? What if your child hates to write? What if you hate to write!? These are some of the challenges we’ll explore each week. If you’re looking for guidance as well as a little bit of encouragement and a lot of inspiration, you’ve come to the right place.
Homeschool Writing and Then Some
Ep #17 Writing the Introduction
Do you want to know the secret to helping students perform better on writing assessments?
Teach them to write strong introductions.
Studies in education show that a good introduction helps in structuring thoughts and arguments more effectively. And that leads better writing overall.
But what if you have a student who struggles to write introductions?
This is a very common problem I see in my students every year, which is one reason I created this episode.
Not only will you learn effective strategies for writing great introductions but also what practices lead to bad introductions.
In this episode, I discuss
- the purpose of introductions and why the first sentence is so important
- why starting your introduction with a dictionary definition is a bad idea, plus eight other ways to write a bad introduction (not what you want to do!)
- strategies that will help you create engaging introductions
- how long your introduction should be and whether you should write it first
- how to have students practice writing introductions
This episode walks you through exactly what you need to know to teach this important skill.