Informational Informative Explanatory Writing Rubric and Mentor Essay FREE
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Description
Informative writing kit for easy scoring/feedback, peer evaluation, and mentor sample evaluation. These tools will help your students quickly and thoroughly learn the elements and process of informational writing. Download for FREE.
How to use:
- Students can color-code the sample essay to find all of the elements such as thesis statement, hook, topic sentences, evidence, elaboration, etc. and discuss as a class or in stations.
- Students can use the rubric expectations to write their own essays.
- Students and teacher can use the simple-language feedback rubric to evaluate student essays. (This feedback is simple language that allows peers and teacher to evaluate the extent and quality of which students wrote the elements of the essay. After 14 years of grading essays, I can assure you these are the common mistakes that students make.) Blank rubric included.
- Students can self-pace and stay on track with the progress tracker.
- You can create evaluation stations with the rubric/feedback sheet.
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5 Paragraph Informative Essay Builder With Thesis Statement Workshop
These thesis statement centered, essay writing workshops ELIMINATE all of the hard work of planning and prepping! Students will learn practical writing techniques with intense scaffolding using this complete resource designed to build a full essay. Each element of every paragraph is broken into manageable steps and scaffolded with mentor samples, 2nd person instructions, video links for differentiation, and templates for building paragraphs. Writing Workshops are NOT formulaic. Rather, they teach expanded thinking!
Nearly every page has the appropriate standard included, which will make writing lesson plans a breeze.
Essay elements (You can teach as a whole unit, or mini-units by paragraph or element.)
Pre-writing
- Choosing a topic and subtopics (topics included)
- Choosing an essay type: compare/contrast, process, cause and effect, explain process, concept, or idea
- Gathering evidence and sources
- Planning and developing thesis statement
Introductory paragraph
- Hook
- Background information
- Thesis statement
Body paragraphs
- Topic sentences (drawn from thesis)
- Evidence
- Transitions
- Elaboration/explanation of evidence
Conclusion paragraph
- Thesis restatement
- Sum up key points
- Pose a resolution (in some cases)
- Revisit hook to bring essay full circle
Workshops includes:
- Thesis writing activity
- Mini-workshops for each paragraph element
- Step-by-step instructions
- Mentor samples
- Templates
- Video links
- Rubric with comments and easy scoring (circle the comments that apply)
- Sample informative essay -- The Life Of A Middle School Student
- Self-pacing progress tracker
- Teacher support notes
- Differentiation suggestions
This resource is all you will ever need to teach a full informative writing course. Buy it once. Use it forever! It comes with 2 versions: PowerPoint and PDF.
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