Description

This resource prepares students for writing a text-dependent 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 analysis essay.

Both literature and informational text are included in this set.

Included in this resource:

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

This resource includes two complete text-dependent analysis essays, one using informational text and the other using literature.

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