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Essay Writing Focus | Interactive Centers for Middle School

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Look Inside · 10 pages · answer key included

Essay Writing Focus cover for middle school centers, showing a notebook foldable and practice materials
Cover of the essay-writing centers resource
Contents and setup directions for four writing centers on purpose, audience, task, and all three together
Contents and teacher setup directions
Introductory story summary tells how Dhruva's steadfast focus led to his becoming the Pole Star (North Star)
Dhruva story introducing the focus theme
Staying “Home” poster connects a fixed home, sports positions, and Dhruva to keeping writing focused
Poster connecting staying home to writing focus
Writing focus checklist asks whether details match the topic sentence, purpose, task, and intended audience
Checklist for evaluating writing focus
Writing focus poster defines purpose as why we write, audience as whom we write for, and task as writing type
Definitions of purpose, audience, and task
Interactive notebook directions show how to cut, fold, label, and add notes to the writing focus foldable
Assembly directions and completed foldable examples
Polestar FOCUS cutout template for the interactive notebook foldable about purpose, audience, and task
Cutout template for the writing focus foldable
Purpose center directions ask students to revisit Dhruva, read practice texts, and complete two activities
Directions for Focus Center #1: Purpose

Answer key included

Answer key included
Attributes
Subject

ELA, Writing

Grades

Grade 6, 7, 8

Types

Centers, Activities

File

PDF

Editable
No
Author
Mrs. Spangler in the Middle
Rating
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About This Product

These are Essay Writing Focus - Interactive Centers for Middle School.

Students will explore the 3 areas needed to keep their writing focused:

  1. 1. Purpose

  2. 2. Audience

  3. 3. Task

Detailed directions are included for each center.

This is a great way to give students hands-on practice in an engaging way.

What's Included

1 PDF with 26 ready to print pages

Resource Tags

essay writing conventions interactive centers literacy author's purpose essay writing for middle school

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