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Tag: Teaching Essay Strategies
Essay Rules | Intentional Fragments
Learn how to teach the essay rules regarding intentional fragments with this FREE lesson. Plus, download a FREE set of writing posters.
How to Develop Thesis Statements from the Writing Prompt
Students often struggle with writing effective thesis statements. Often, their difficulties result from failing to know how to dissect the essay writing prompt and formulate their…
How to Use Essay Evidence
Whether writing an informational/explanatory or argumentative essay, knowing which evidence appropriately supports the topic sentence of each body paragraph is essential. Teach your students to follow…
Knowledge of Language | Anchor Standards for Language
The key word in the Knowledge of Language Standard is apply. The somewhat ambiguous term, language, refers to the other five Standards in the Language Strand which encompass…
How to Teach Writing Skills
Two time-proven solutions to these problems take little time, but do necessitate some instruction and practice: sentence revisions and literary response.
Essay Conclusion Response Comments
Fair to say that the essay conclusion tends to be the weakest instructional piece of our essay teaching repertoire. The full extent of my own high…
Essay Hooks and Response Comments
Writing comments to respond to student essays as formative assessment (first or second drafts) and summative assessment (final published draft) is tough work. It’s both art…
Counterclaim and Refutation Sentence Frames
Transitions within the counterclaim paragraph are extremely important to master in order to create clear connections between the counterclaim and refutation.