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29 resources with the concept essay organization

Lesson 3: Essay Organizer Lesson Plan

Lesson 3: Essay Organizer

4th - 8th
CCSS: Designed
A three-minute exercise warms-up scholars' writing abilities in order to follow a writing process that ends in an essay. The essay's topic is a barrier and the values used to break it. Four steps include choosing a topic, jotting-down a...
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Constructed Response Workbook Lesson Plan

Constructed Response Workbook

5th - 8th
CCSS: Designed
Learning how to express and justify a point of view is an essential skill. A helpful workbook guides scholars in crafting a constructed response essay. The comprehensive resource contains a variety of graphic organizers to help...
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Literature (Fiction) Website

Literature (Fiction)

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
An informative installment of the Writing for Specific Fields series helps readers learn how to interpret and write about fiction. The website details nine easy steps for writing a literary analysis—a useful method for all readers!
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Writing Sample Constructed-Response Assignment Assessment

Writing Sample Constructed-Response Assignment

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Class members practice their writing skills by completing a prompt about maturity. They develop a constructed response about something they once thought was important, but may not be as important now. 
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Paired Passage Practice and the Extended Response Question Activities & Project

Paired Passage Practice and the Extended Response Question

10th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
How do pupils relate paired passages to each other? Here's a resource that helps! The lesson includes a short story and a poem as a set of paired reading passages, followed by some analysis questions. It also includes an essay template...
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The Wolf and the Kid Audio

The Wolf and the Kid

5th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
What is true bravery and how do people demonstrate it? Part of an extensive series of audiobooks, Aesop's 81-word fable "The Wolf and the Kid" tells the story of a boy that bravely attacks an enemy wolf from afar. Paired with a graphic...
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Drawing Relationships Video

Drawing Relationships

2 mins 9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Apples and oranges are easy to compare, but finding connections between very different objects, people, or concepts, such as Kim Jong-Un and Martin Luther King, Jr., may take more time. A video about drawing relationships explains how to...
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Transitions Website

Transitions

9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Ideas don't naturally flow from one to another. They need transitions to help them connect. Part of a larger Writing the Paper series, the resource introduces writers to the concept of using transitions in their writing. Topics covered...
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Reorganizing Drafts Website

Reorganizing Drafts

9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Poor organization often destroys an otherwise good paper. After writing a first draft, individuals consider the organization of ideas, a topic discussed in the 16th handout in the 24-part Writing the Paper series. The resource covers...
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Building Evidence-Based Arguments: "Cuplae poena par esto: Let the punishment fit the crime." Unit

Building Evidence-Based Arguments: "Cuplae poena par esto: Let the punishment fit the crime."

11th
CCSS: Designed
Should a criminal's punishment match the crime? An argumentative writing plan explores this question as class members investigate a variety of mixed-medium sources by experts in the field, form evidence-based claims, and support them...
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Color Coding Video

Color Coding

1 min 9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Now what to do with all those notes! The color coding strategy outlined in a short video provides writers with an easy way to filter and organize the notes they took while researching. The video briefly models the process using a sample...
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Explain Yourself: An Expository Writing Unit for High School Unit

Explain Yourself: An Expository Writing Unit for High School

9th - 10th
Introduce expository writing with a unit that asks writers to craft an essay to explain a belief, value, or priority that is important to them. Mini-lessons within the unit focus on crafting thesis statements and conclusions, selecting...
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Writing: 11-12th Grade ELA Common Core
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Writing: 11-12th Grade ELA Common Core

11th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Whether or not your school has adopted the Common Core standards, your juniors and seniors will find much to like in this collection of argumentative, informative, and narrative writing resources designed specifically for the Common Core. Take a look at the attached notes for each resource to find the aligned Common Core Standards addressed by the resource.
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Essay Writing Guide App

Essay Writing Guide

6th - Higher Ed
Keep your writers on track with a detailed reference tool. Organized into four main categories, this app will support learners as they compose and revise any number of essays.
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Persuasive Essay Handouts & Reference

Persuasive Essay

7th - 10th
CCSS: Adaptable
Next time you assign your young historians to write a persuasive essay, use this document as a starting point and support them with a rubric, tips for writing a successful persuasive piece, and a general essay outline.
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Essay Writing Tips for APUSH Handouts & Reference

Essay Writing Tips for APUSH

11th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Did you know that most DBQ essay responses are longer than the standard essay? Give your AP US history students the tips and tools they'll need to succeed when writing their essays for the AP exam. This handout includes valuable dos and...
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Drafting Board Lesson Plan

Drafting Board

6th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Here is a great online interactive activity that will not only spur discussion on free speech and student expression, but will also involve a great deal of practice in identifying claims and supporting them with evidence.
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Compare-Contrast (by Points) Graphic Organizer

Compare-Contrast (by Points)

6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Try out a graphic organizer to help your pupils prepare compare and contrast essays or paragraphs. Learners choose two points and write down information about each subject one point at a time. See the materials section for an organizer...
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Revision Checklist for the Accordion Essay Graphic Organizer

Revision Checklist for the Accordion Essay

4th - 8th
Encourage your class to revise their writing and check over their work by requiring them to complete an organization checklist. The checklist, created specifically for a accordion-style essay, asks writers to look over their formatting,...
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Order the Information in Informational Writing Video
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Order the Information in Informational Writing

5 mins 5th - 7th
CCSS: Designed
After their research has been compiled and categorized, the next step for your class is to determine in what order information should appear in their essays. Emphasize that in order for readers to easily understand an essay, information...
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Draft Body Paragraphs for Argumentative Writing Video

Draft Body Paragraphs for Argumentative Writing

5 mins 5th - 7th
CCSS: Designed
After compiling the necessary research and organizing information in an outline, your young writers will learn how to add context and quality to details in order to construct a well developed paragraph. This is the sixth video in a...
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Develop Support for an Argument in Opinion Writing Video

Develop Support for an Argument in Opinion Writing

5 mins 5th - 7th
CCSS: Designed
This resource provides an excellent explanation of how to begin developing support for main ideas in a writing piece. Young writers will work through a step-by-step process of developing supporting details that serve to prove the topic...
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End-Of-Unit 2 Assessment: On-Demand Analytical Essay About How Esperanza Changes Over Time Lesson Plan
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End-Of-Unit 2 Assessment: On-Demand Analytical Essay About How Esperanza Changes Over Time

5th
CCSS: Designed
Close the unit on Esperanza Rising with an in-class analytic essay on how Esperanza changes over the course of the novel. Writers can use any of their notes and work from the unit as well as their drafts of the first two paragraphs of...
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The TASP 5 Paragraph "Persuasive" Essay Presentation
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The TASP 5 Paragraph "Persuasive" Essay

7th - 12th
Though this presentation is designed for the Texas Academic Skills Program's (TASP) writing assessment, it could work for any class that is preparing to write a five-paragraph persuasive essay. Slides take intermediate writers through...
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