✓ Improve basic writing skills and writing traits by encouraging the use of voice, word choice, conventions, fluency, ideas, and organization
✓ Begin the use of similes, metaphors, and specific word choice to catch readers’ interests and improve their understanding
✓ Introduce and develop student’s research skills through analyzing texts
✓ Practice the identification of time, place, audience, and purpose in text
✓ Teach how to distinguish between fact, opinion, and reasoned argument