A step-by-step approach to help your ESL (newcomer or beginner) students through the basic steps of starting, transitioning, and concluding an essay by using graphic organizers and writing frames. There are 3 topics in this product: Winter Break, Holiday Highlights, and New Year Reflections. First, students can fill in the graphic organizers, then fill in the blanks on the frames, and then recopy the entire paragraph on the final draft paper or their own notebooks or paper. Include in this scaf