Boxes and Bullets: Personal and Persuasive Essays Complete Unit
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Description
Slides and materials for every session in the unit! Are you wondering how to teach persuasive essays to 4th graders? Are you looking for concrete lessons and materials to help students write in a systematic way? This BOXES AND BULLETS: PERSONAL AND PERSUASIVE ESSAYS COMPLETE UNIT product pairs seamlessly with Lucy Calkins' opinion writing unit: "Boxes and Bullets: Personal and Persuasive Essays Grade 4 Unit 2" and requires no prep for teachers teaching the Units of Study by Lucy Calkins.
It includes twenty-one ready-to-go mini-lessons including teaching points, turn & talks, modeling, active engagement, independent practice, and shares, AND corresponding graphic organizers/materials for persuasive essays and personal essays.
This product is part of my Lucy Calkins-inspired opinion writing unit plan but can be used with any opinion writing curriculum.
To purchase each individual bend:
If Powerpoint is more your thing:
This product includes:
- 21 ready-to-use Google Slides mini-lessons (Session #1: Essay Structure Boot Camp; Session #2: Collecting Ideas as Essayists; Session #3: Writing to Learn; Session #4: Using Elaboration Prompts to Grow Ideas; Session #5: Mining Our Writing; Session #6: Boxes and Bullets: Framing Essays; Session #7: Return to Boot Camp; Session #8: Composing and Sorting Mini-Stories; Session #9: Creating Parallelism in Lists; Session #10: Organizing for Drafting; Session #11: Building a Cohesive Draft; Session #12: Becoming Our Own Job Captains; Session #13: Writing Introductions and Conclusions; Session #14: Revising Our Work with Goals in Mind; Session #15: Correcting Run-On Sentences and Sentence Fragments; Session #16: Moving from Personal to Persuasive; Session #17: Inquiry into Persuasive Essay; Session #18: Broader Evidence; Session #19: Connecting Evidence, Reason, and Thesis; Session #20: Getting Ready to Put Our Opinions into the World; Session #21: Hey World, Listen Up!) - Google Slides
- 14 ready-to-use graphic organizers + materials that correspond with the sessions - PDF
Can be used for:
- Students engaging in the opinion writing process
- Students learning concrete writing crafts
- Students writing persuasive essays
- Students writing personal essays
- Students learning to write essays
- Students engaging in the "Boxes and Bullets" unit by Lucy Calkins
- Teachers teaching persuasive writing for 4th graders
- Teachers teaching opinion writing for 4th graders
Let's Connect:
Website: jayteach.com
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Blog: 3 Time-Saving Ways to Teach the Units of Study By Lucy Calkins
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