This product pairs nicely with Lucy Calkin´s workshop curriculum. I created it for my 4th grade students to teach with the curriculum but I am sure many others would benefit from it whether in a different grade or teaching a different curriculum. It provides scaffolds to create a thesis statement, sentence frames, organization, ways to start and end an essay, ways to connect and transition with evidence, two editing and writing checklists, and two student examples to study, learn from, and impro