Looking for a specific template to support your writing?
Choose a title in the list below to find detailed scaffolds that make explicit what is expected in many different types of discussion posts and comments on Youth Voices.
Once you’ve internalized these guides, we encourage you to mix and match different paragraphs and to go beyond the use of a guide as well.
Commenting
Comment on a poem about a flower or vegetable
Essays
Quoting a speech, conversation, trip, assembly, guest speaker, panel discussion, video, event…
Three Questions
Signal Words
Freewriting and the Open-ended Writing Process
Class Study or Inquiry
Personal Inquiry
Dialogue of Authors or Characters Showing Different Opinions
Revision
Citing Sources
Letters to the Next Mayor of Your City or Town (Basic)
Letters to the Next Mayor of Your City or Town (General)
Letter to the Next Mayor of Your City or Town (Developed)
Reporting on a Game
Describing Your Neighborhood
Big Idea
Video Treatment and Template
Dear Leaders of America
Literature Response
Questioning and Speculating
Track a Literary Element
Questions to help you respond to a poem
Analysis of a Monologue
Annotating Literature
Replying to Annotations
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