Writing a Literary Essay 3rd grade

Help your students learn how to write a short literary essay as part of Writers’ Workshop.

This unit provides step by step practice for 3rd graders when learning to write claims based on short original and adapted stories. Following a step by step process, they organize the evidence which proves their thesis. They use this information from the graphic organizer to write paragraphs which include the thesis, evidence that proves the thesis, explanation of how the evidence proves the thesis and a conclusion.

Using graphic organizers and writing frames helps students when they begin trying to organize their thinking. It also helps them remember the process when writing additional essays. There are several stories provided to give them practice with this process.

Although based on 3rd grade standards, this unit would also provide review for 4th grade writers. It could also help 2nd graders as they learn to write paragraphs.

There are posters included:

Character Traits

Choosing a Claim

What is a Literary Essay

Writing a Literary Essay

Sentence Starters and Transitional Words

The unit can be used in PDF or digital form.Answer keys are removed from the digital format.

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