Essay Architect 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! This fully reproducible book provides all of the necessary materials for complete coverage of essay study, including: essay terminology, types of essays, essay organization, how t... more »o 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! With Essay Architect, students have the opportunity to practice every step of the process before actually writing an essay, and learn how to 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 sharpen their essays with heightened vocabulary, stronger evidence, and higher-level thinking.« less