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Informative and Explanatory Essay Writing Unit - Teacher Guide - Print & Digital

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This resource was great to help students who struggled with explanatory essays. The template is a key for students who need the extra assistance. Great purchase!
This was very helpful in preparing my students to write informational essays and helped me as I guided them through the process. Great resource!
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Informative Essay (aka Explanatory Essay) Writing Unit includes everything you need to help students grasp the concept of informational writing, the structure and organization of an Informative/Explanatory Essay, sample essays for peer-editing practice, rubrics, notes, and more! Designed for middle or high school students. Includes Teacher Notes/Instructions, Notes on the elements of an Informative Essay, handouts on the organization and structure, writing a Compare/Contrast Thesis, a Peer-Editing Checklist, Rubrics, 6 sample Informative/Explanatory Essays for evaluation, and more. Includes both PRINTABLE and DIGITAL VERSIONS for Distance Learning and In-Person Classrooms.

This unit for teaching Explanatory/Informative Essays includes:

✴️ Lecture Notes and Handouts on the Elements of Informative/Explanatory Essays

✴️ Graphic Organizers to help students learn the structure and set up to organize their own Informative/Explanatory Essay

✴️ Notes on writing Explanatory/Informative Thesis Statements

✴️ How to Evaluate Informative/Explanatory Essays with hands-on student activity

✴️ Informative/Explanatory Essay Peer Editing Checklist

✴️ Informative/Explanatory Essay Rubric for formal assessment

✴️ Teacher's Notes on Informative/Explanatory Essay Evaluation

✴️ Peer-Editing Checklist

✴️ General Essay Rubric

✴️ Informative/Explanatory Rubric

✴️ 6 Sample Student Informative/Explanatory Essays (for individual, small group or whole-class evaluation)

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When students are ready to begin writing their own essays, have students practice writing the parts of the essay (titles, grabbers, topic sentences, etc.) with the Teaching the Essay Writing Process - Essay Writing Basics Resource BUNDLE

For practicing evaluating and peer-editing other specific types of essays, be sure to check out our products on Argumentative/Persuasive Essays, Compare and Contrast Essays, Cause/Effect Essays, Descriptive Essays, and more under the Essay and Writing Category on TpT and SimplyNovel.com

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