Informational Explanatory Writing Test Prep | Text-Based Writing | 8th Grade

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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.

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