Teaching Essay Strategies | Step by Step Worksheets, Skills, and 8 Process Essays
Program Description
TEACHING ESSAY STRATEGIES includes the resources students need to master the CCSS W.1 argumentative and W.2 informational/explanatory essays. Each no-prep resource allows students to work at their own paces via mastery learning. Every resource teachers need to teach essays to upper elementary through high school students is included in this comprehensive program.
All program components are digital downloads (no print books).
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ESSAY STRATEGY WORKSHEETS feature 42 skill-based essay strategy lessons, beginning with simple 3-word paragraphs and proceeding step-by-step to complex multi-paragraph essays. The grammatical sentence openers teach syntactic variety in the writing context. One writing skill builds upon another. Students learn how to write effective thesis statements (claims), introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions. Upon completion of each worksheet, the teacher mini-conferences with the student to review the formative writing assessment. If mastered, the student moves on to the next worksheet. If not, the student revises and re-conferences or the teacher assigns additional practice with the targeted…
ESSAY SKILLS WORKSHEETS feature 97 worksheets to help teachers differentiate writing instruction with both remedial and advanced writing skills. For example, students who struggle with writing complete sentences need the four worksheets addressing fragments and run-ons, as well as the four subject and predicate worksheets. However, more developed writers will benefit from the errors in reasoning, writing style, transitions, types of evidence, introduction and conclusion strategies worksheets.
EIGHT WRITING PROCESS ESSAYS each feature an on-demand diagnostic essay assessment, writing prompt with connected reading, brainstorming, graphic organizer, response, revision, and editing activities. Plus, each essay includes a detailed analytical (not holistic) rubric for assessment-based learning.
COMMENT BANKS feature comprehensive banks for effective writing feedback. Simply copy and paste into Google doc comments bank or a Word doc if you prefer. The program includes the 3-6, 6-9, 9-12, and College/Workplace comment banks as Word docs to customize as you wish.
AI CHATBOT REVISION TASKS feature extended learning sentence expansion, combining, and revision lessons, corresponding to the ESSAY STRATEGY WORKSHEETS, to teach students how to safely, ethically, and productively use these language tools.
What teachers say
All reviews“Your method of teaching argumentative essays is the most step-by-step that I have ever seen. Thanks again for the TES program. I plan to use a great deal of it, especially the methods!”
“Great step by step worksheets that help students build or reinforce essay writing skills.”
“These were great for my Writing Composition classes! So easy to use and so helpful for the kids!”
“A thoroughly comprehensive format to teach writing. Just what I needed.”
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FAQ
Questions teachers ask
What programs are in this bundle?
It includes the Essay Strategy Worksheets, the Essay Skills Worksheets, Eight Writing Process Essays, comment banks for writing feedback, and AI chatbot revision tasks.
What grade levels is it for?
The publisher describes it as everything teachers need to teach essays to upper elementary through high school students, targeting the CCSS W.1 argumentative and W.2 informational/explanatory essays.
How do students move through the program?
The 42 essay strategy worksheets build one skill at a time, from simple three-word paragraphs to complex multi-paragraph essays. After each worksheet, the teacher mini-conferences to review the formative writing assessment, and the student either moves on or revises and re-conferences.
What are the comment banks?
They are banks of writing feedback comments for grades 3-6, 6-9, 9-12, and college/workplace, provided as Word docs you can customize and copy into Google doc comments or Word.
What are the AI chatbot revision tasks?
They are extended learning lessons in sentence expansion, combining, and revision that correspond to the essay strategy worksheets, and they teach students how to use these language tools safely, ethically, and productively.
How is differentiation handled?
The 97 Essay Skills Worksheets provide both remedial and advanced practice, for example fragment, run-on, subject and predicate worksheets for struggling writers, and errors in reasoning, writing style, transitions, and evidence worksheets for more developed writers.
