STAAR Expository Writing Guide Bundle
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Description
This product will help guide your student through writing an expository essay that is opinion based. It’s also a no-fail way to prepare your students for that writing composition state assessment! The teacher lessons are no-prep and easy to use!
DISCLAIMER
The STAAR Expository Writing Guide for Students is a great complementary resource. Please note: The essay in the two products is NOT the same. I do not have my students actually write the essay in the student guide. Instead, it is a way for them to reference the writing process.
Student Guide: What's included?
This file includes 29 pages with:
- 10 cover options (5 with “Expository Essay Writing Guide”; 5 with “Opinion Essay Writing Guide”)
- Table of Contents for easy reference
- How to Brainstorm
- Creating Central Ideas
- Planning the Essay
- Adding Details: facts, descriptions, short story, and comparison
- Hooking the Reader
- Writing a Conclusion
- Drafting your Essay
- Revising: omit, combine, toss, order
- Transition Words
- Synonyms
- Editing Checklist
- Final Draft Questions
- Student Friendly Rubric
More About this Product
This resource was originally created to prepare students for the STAAR Writing assessment. Whether you have a month left to prepare your students or are at the beginning of the year, this resource will take the stress away and leave you and your students feeling confidence.
This resource can help every student learn how to write an expository essay that is opinion based. It guides students through writing an essay by providing concrete definitions, examples, and sentence stems. It gives an example essay completed based on the prompt: Write about your favorite place to spend time. Describe the place and explain what makes it special.
Even the most reluctant and struggling writers will find this guide and its guided approach helpful.
Teacher Guide: What's included?
This file includes 55 pages with:
- 2 Cover options
- Table of Contents for easy reference
- Detailed key points and concepts
- Student Struggles
- Teacher Trips
- Clear mini-lessons
- Graphic organizers (completed for your mini-lesson)
- Blank, printable student graphic organizers
Mini-lessons Included:
- Brainstorming
- Planning
- Central Idea
- Adding Details
- Hook
- Conclusions
- Drafting
- Revising
- Editing
What's Included: Expository Writing Prompts
This resources has 25 print and go expository essay prompts. These prompts are created to replicate the STAAR Expository essay, including a READ, THINK, WRITE section as well as the "be sure to" list at the bottom.
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