Description

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

Throughout this 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 text-dependent informational/explanatory essay.

Included in this resource:

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

This resource includes two complete text-dependent informational/explanatory essays.