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Slide 1 Effective Lesson Design: Making Every Minute Count Laura Terrill August 2014 6+1 Traits of Writing Ruth Culham âHerding catsâ¦..The art of getting those ideas…

Writing Good Topic Sentences Topic Sentences state the main idea of a paragraph in an interesting way to hook the reader. All of the details in a paragraph should support…