CCSS Aligned Informative Essay Outline and Guide

This informative essay outline, guide, and rubric will help students develop a well written essay that includes a thesis, details that support their thesis, a creative introduction, and a thought provoking conclusion.
This guide is a great tool to use to model essay writing with students and a great place for students to organize their thoughts.

Included in this downloadable PDF are:
A guide that explains all the different parts of an essay
A 5 page outline
A checklist for self and peer editing
A rubric aligned with the CCSS
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**Prepare students for extended response questions that require evidence. Help students write about their own interpretations of texts in the classroom: BRACES-A Blueprint for On Demand and Essay Writing

**Check out these guides that help students develop well-written and effective essays about fiction texts:
ESSAY ON CONFLICT
ESSAY ON POINT OF VIEW
ESSAY ON THEME

** Using interactive notebooks in your classroom? Try out these flip books for fiction and non fiction close reading.

**CITING EVIDENCE GOT YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS DOWN? Take a break from the CORE with:
*120 Writing Prompts NOT Common Core Aligned.
*Start with the Freebie version of my students' favorite 24 prompts here.

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