Prose & Purpose

Do your students have no idea how to start an introduction? Do they go in circles trying to figure out if they should ask a question, or spend too long trying to find an interesting statement? I use this acronym GTA comma S to help my students when they have no idea where to begin so they at least get one sentence down in their introduction. Then if they want to add a question, interesting statement, or quote as a hook they can do so later. This strategy works well with ELLs because it give