Informational Writing 4 and 5 Paragraph Essay and Thesis Statement Workshops
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Description
This 4 and 5 paragraph informative essay bundle allows differentiation for struggling and more advanced writers. Your struggling students can learn the same skills on a smaller scale. ELIMINATE all of the hard work of planning and prepping! Students will learn practical writing techniques with intense scaffolding and learn to craft a perfect thesis statement every time!
These workshops are NOT formulaic. Rather, they teach students to expand their thinking!
For these complete essay builders, 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.
Nearly every page has the appropriate standard included, which will make writing lesson plans a breeze.
Thesis statement workshop takes a deep dive into the elements of thesis with tons of activities and opportunities to analyze thesis statements for informative writing.
INFORMATIVE ESSAY BUILDER WORKSHOP:
Essay elements (You can teach this 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
This workshop 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
THESIS WORKSHOP:
Thesis statement practice for informative / explanatory writing should be fun and engaging! These Common Core, TEKS activities are awesome for stations and for individual learning, and will have students whipping out perfect thesis statements in no time. This is a MUST-DO lesson before teaching informative / explanatory writing. After all, the thesis statement is the most important sentence in the essay.
ANSWERS INCLUDED --- NO PREP!
This workshop includes
- Reference guide and thesis statement examples for the different types of informative essays: compare/contrast, cause/effect, process, classification, analysis, and explanation.
- Activities to dissect the elements 6 thesis statements
- Guided practice with suggested answers for writing each of the 6 essay types
- Step-by-step guide for writing a thesis statement for student's own topics
- FREEBIE INCLUDED: PEER EVALUATION SHEETS
These resources are 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.
MORE RESOURCES FOR WRITING
FULL YEAR OF ESSAY WRITING WITH DIGITAL TOOLS AND RUBRICS
- Argumentative Essay Builder
- Expository Essay Builder
- Narrative Essay Builder
- Short Answer Extended Response Builders
- Digital Rubrics
- Thesis Statement Sticky Note Builders
- Real Student Essay Samples to Analyze
- Coded Rubric Feedback Cards (grading tools)
- Elements of the 4 Major Essays (drag & drop activity)
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