Description: This lesson uses conversation cards to give students plenty of practice in trying out various elements of choice in writing. The goal is to provide students the tools they need to write in a manner that is  engaging and fluent, ultimately developing their own writing “style”. 

Additional Information:

• recommendation on students’ background knowledge of writing choices terminology

• teaching examples and student writing activities on diction, sentence variety, parallel structure, rhetorical questions, parentheses and repetition 

• enhancement tasks for further practice or assessment purposes: more challenging versions of initial tasks, partner work to gain feedback, editing earlier writing to enhance choices, and creative application activities