LTA Toolkit

• Graphic organizers to help summarize main ideas and key details 
• Sentence starters for paraphrasing main ideas
• Verb lists to help accurately explain what a text says explicitly
• Lesson planning tools
• A rubric for assessing summary skills (in English and Spanish)

Our FREE LTA Toolkit includes these key argument writing resources.

• Writing process
• Lesson planning tools
• Persuasive appeals organizer
• Argument plan/outline
• Claims and evidence worksheet
• Transitional words for constructing arguments
• Argument rubrics 
• Argument writing Self-evaluation checklists
• Writing samples

• Evidence-based (text-talk) discussion starters
• Cooperative learning language frames
• Planning tools for implementation
• Agree/disagree starters
• Discussion maps and prep worksheets
• Transitional words for constructing arguments
• Speaking rubrics 
• Student samples