Description

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

Writing types included:

• Argumentative Writing
• Informational/Explanatory Writing
• Text-Dependent Analysis

This resource includes six 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