Informative Essay Writing Text Based Unit Printable AND Digital

Teaching Middle School students to write informative essays can be challenging but this will make it so much easier! The step-by-step interactive guided notes and video lessons will break things down and engage your students as they learn how to write text-based informative essays with ease.

This resource is both Printable AND Digital! :)

This unit teaches:

➡️ The Writing Process: Read the prompt, Flip the Prompt, Read and Mark the Text, Plan

➡️ Introduction: hook, arch (bridge transition sentence), thesis

➡️ Body: Answer, Cite evidence, Explain with commentary, Ingeminate (repeat the cycle of cite and explain), Top it off with a Conclusion

➡️Conclusion: Affirm the thesis, Trim the point, andThe call to action

What's included in the PRINTABLE resource:

✅ Informative Prompt

✅ Two original non-fiction texts about Pipestone National Monument and Mount Rushmore on which the prompt is based.

✅ Four versions of leveled interactive guided notes that I call Pixanotes® with different levels of scaffolding (All notes have the same content)

Level 1: Fully printed content and pre-printed pictures

Level 2: Fully printed picture flaps and fill in the blanks for students

Level 3: Pre-printed content and picture flaps that need to be positioned by the

student.

Level 4: Fill in the blanks for content and picture flaps that need to be positioned

by the student.

Want to see the notes in action? Check out this FREE video: How to Use Pixanotes®

✅Picture flaps

✅Word Bank

✅TWO Dominoes games (to practice with key terminology listed above)

✅Sentence starters for writing an essay

✅TWO planning sheets

✅An Anchor Chart

What's included in the DIGITAL resource via Google Slides and Google Forms:

✅ Teacher's Guide with directions and links to share on any learning management system such as Google Classroom, Canvas and more!

✅ A Digital Notebook that holds all the notes and videos in one place!

✅ An embedded introduction video along with "tech tips".

✅ Digital access to the text set via DocHub (directions and video included) that consists of two original non-fiction texts about Pipestone National Monument and Mount Rushmore

✅ Interactive, guided and digital notes with fill-in-the-blanks for content and picture flaps that need to be positioned by the student for each of the 4 sections listed above. (That's 4 sets of notes!)

✅ Movable picture flaps

✅ Text boxes already placed into the notes

✅ Editable directions for the student

✅ SEVEN Embedded Videos that match each set of the notes and the writing process - including planning!

✅ Self-Grading Quizzes (on Google Forms) for each section (That's a total of 4 quizzes!)

✅Two ways to use this unit: Teacher-paced (for general education students) and Student-paced (for advanced students) - Included videos to explain!

✅Informative Essay Digital Notebook (For the Teacher-paced option)

✨NOTE: Students will need access to Google and YouTube. The videos are hosted on YouTube and embedded into the Google Slides. ✨

Your students will love this resource because it breaks down all the parts of an essay into manageable bite-sized pieces. You will love this resource because all the hard work is done!

Click here for the PRINTABLE ONLY version.

Click here for the DIGITAL ONLY version.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kristen said: "Great, comprehensive resource for informational writing. Make sure you take the time to look through the resource as there is a lot of useful information in there to use in the long-term."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Engaging Inner Einsteins said: "I didn't use this entire resource. However, the two informational passages and writing prompt were just what my students needed. It was great practice integrating information from both passages and writing a response."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tina said: "So much stuff!"

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Other Informative essay-writing resources you will love:

Informative Essay Task Cards to provide engaging practice with identifying introduction components like hook, "arch" (transition sentence between hook and thesis), and thesis as well as relevant and irrelevant evidence and commentary!

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