Argumentative Essay Writing Bundle (6th-8th Grade) (CCSS Aligned)

This bundle includes everything that you need to teach argumentative writing to your middle schoolers!

It begins with introducing argumentative writing to students. Then you can teach the writing process. After that, there is a complete 20-lesson unit that guides teachers and students through the entire process with detailed lesson plans, interactive notebook activities, graphic organizers, and so much more! Finally, there are multiple graphic organizers.

These resources are Common Core State Standards aligned.

Included:

Argumentative Essay Writing Introduction:

• 36 slide presentation
• 3 intro slides
• 1 claim slide with 4 practice slides
• 1 reasons slides with 4 practice slides
• 1 evidence slide with 4 practice slides
• 1 counterclaim slide with 4 practice slides
• Answers to the practice slides
• Interactive handout
• Answers to the interactive handout
• 1 practice activity

Argumentative Writing Process:

• EDITABLE 20-slide PowerPoint presentation on the writing process
• A handout to go with the PowerPoint
• An answer key to the handout
• Mentor text
• Graphic organizers to go with the mentor text

Argumentative Essay Writing Unit

• Page 4: Product Overview
• Page 5: ESL/ELL Resources Information
• Pages 6-18: Lesson One—Terms to Know
• Pages 19-26: Lesson Two—Mentor Essay
• Pages 27-33: Lesson Three—Parts of an Argumentative Essay
• Pages 34-40: Lesson Four—Making Claims
• Pages 41-44: Lesson Five—Addressing Counterclaims
• Pages 45-48: Counterclaim Reference Posters
• Pages 49-58: Lesson Six—Argumentative Paragraph
• Page 59: Lesson Seven—Argumentative Paragraph continued…
• Pages 60-66: Lesson Eight—Rubric Understanding
• Pages 67-76: Lesson Nine—Debate Texting Intro to Argument Topic
• Pages 77-82: Lesson Ten—Do/What Chart
• Pages 83-87: Lesson Eleven—Essay Planning
• Pages 88-89: Lesson Twelve—Writing an Introduction & Peer Review
• Pages 90-91: Lesson Thirteen—Writing Body Paragraph 1 & Peer Review
• Pages 92-93: Lesson Fourteen—Writing Body Paragraph 2 & Peer Review
• Pages 94-95: Lesson Fifteen—Writing Body Paragraph 3 & Peer Review
• Pages 96-97: Lesson Sixteen—Writing the Conclusion & Peer Review
• Pages 98-102: Lesson Seventeen—Peer Editing with Different Partners
• Pages 103-110: Lesson Eighteen—Conferences and Self Reflection
• Pages 111-115: Lesson Nineteen—Do/What Chart and First Read of Texts
• Pages 116-121: Lesson Twenty—Essay Planning
• Page 122-124: Lesson Twenty-One—Writing an Introduction and Body Paragraph 1
• Page 125-126: Lesson Twenty-Two—Writing Body Paragraphs 2 & 3
• Pages 127-131: Lesson Twenty-Three—Writing the Conclusion and Peer Reviewing
• Pages 132-139: Lesson Twenty-Four—Conferences and Unit Reflection
• Pages 140-172: Extra *BONUS* Resources
• Pages 173-188: Additional ESL Pages/Worksheets/Supports

Argumentative Writing Graphic Organizers:

• 5 Graphic Organizers that address different writing styles (there are six pages, but some include different styles with the same content)

Argumentative Essay Writing Revision Stations:

• Station 1: Introductions and Conclusions—Students will use the checklists on this page to double check their introductions and conclusions. Allow them time to revise and edit their introductions and conclusions based on the checklists. The introduction checklist includes an interesting hook, a detail, and a claim/thesis. The conclusion checklist includes restating the claim/thesis, summarizing the essay, and a clincher.
• Station 2: Transition Words and Phrases—Students are given a list of transition words and phrases. Using the list, students will review their essays and replace and add in transition words and phrases as needed in order to make it sound more sophisticated.
• Station 3: Sentence Variety—Students are given instructions and examples of compound and complex sentences as well as sentences with appositives. There is a BONUS example of a compound-complex sentence. This is for higher learners or higher grade levels. Students must use these examples to check their sentence variety and then add even more sentence variety to their writing.
• Station 4: Repetitive and Boring Words and Counterclaims—This station includes two activities.

Repetitive and Boring Words: Students are encouraged to use larger and less repetitive words. In this station, they will take the time to read through their essays and replace all repetitive and boring words. The instructions encourage them to use a dictionary or a thesaurus.

Counterclaims: Students check to be sure that they addressed the counterclaim. They must also ensure that they refuted it. If they did not do either of these things, they should go back into their essays and do so. There are sentence starters for addressing it and refuting it.

• Station 5: Reasons and Text Evidence—Students will check to be sure they included reasons to support their claims and enough text evidence to support each one. They will also be sure that they used text evidence correctly and that they explained and elaborated on it. There are pointers and examples that help students with this task. They can take the time to make any necessary changes to their reasons and text evidence here.
• Station 6: Peer Editing—Students must switch essays with another student. They will read one another’s essay and then fill out a small form telling their peer things that they did well and things that they need to improve on. Once each student has received feedback, they can apply that to revise and edit their writing.

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