These writing lessons took me 15 years to perfect. My students' writing has dramatically improved after teaching these 3 documents - 1. general writing tips (sentence variety with student examples, action verbs, exploding/slowing down a moment, and more), 2. dialgoue tips (simple rules, action tags, and more), and 3. a list of and examples of 14 types of leads/hooks. These are on google docs, so you can edit to suit your needs. Good for 4th-12th graders.