Description

This resource prepares students for writing a text-based opinion essay, a text-based informational/explanatory essay, a text-based narrative, and a text-dependent analysis essay, and is designed to meet the expectations of various state writing tests.

Writing types included:

• Opinion Writing
• Informational/Explanatory Writing
• Text-Dependent Analysis
• Text-Based Narrative

This resource includes eight full prompts and essays (two for each writing type).

Throughout each engaging writing unit students will read a text, find evidence for use in their essays, use sentence frames to cite evidence in their writing, and write a complete essay.

Included in each unit:

• Teacher guide
• RAFT response acronym
• Sentence starters scaffold
• Text annotation bookmark
• Writing checklist
• Prompt analysis checklist
• Engaging texts
• Note-taking graphic organizer
• Rubric
• Exemplars
• Publishing pages

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