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Essay Architect: Building Great Essays Through Preparation, Practice, Performance, and Polish!
Essay Architect Building Great Essays Through Preparation Practice Performance and Polish Author:Kristen Bowers Over 100 pages of fully reproducible activities and handouts to teach your students how to write great essays--with teacher guides to help you through the process! Teach your students how to build a great essay from the ground-up with terminology they understand and remember! This guide provides all of the necessary materials for complete covera... more »ge of essay study, including essay terminology, types of essays, essay organization, how to read an essay prompt, writing effective titles, writing grabbers, writing topic sentences, piecing the essay together, essay evaluation activities, sample essays for evaluation, pre-writing graphic organizers, a list of words to avoid, a list of commonly misspelled words, activities for adding transitions, activities for finding and evaluating sources for research papers, activities for finding and integrating quotes for response to literature essays, and much, much more! Teach your students how to write a great essay, from the essential structure and vocabulary, to pre-writing, to numerous opportunities to practice the skill of writing, to polishing the essay in its final stages. With Essay Architect, students have the opportunity to learn and practice every step of the process before actually writing an essay, and evaluate and assess other essays to recognize high-quality, well-written, as well as poorly-written, weak writing in order to perfect their own writing. With the Essay Architect system, you will no longer have to take the time to teach and re-teach your students the necessary skills of essay writing. Your students will have learned the vocabulary, structure and essential elements of essay writing the first time. From then on, you will only have to work to help your students improve their essays with heightened vocabulary, stronger evidence, and higher-level thinking. Teachers are feeling the stress to teach their students to write well--and it seems as if there are not enough hours in the school year to teach students everything they need to learn to meet state and national content standards. Help your students master the necessary skill of essay writing, while making your life easier!« less