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Informative Essay Format Unit for Middle School

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Informative Essay Format Unit for Middle School preview
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Informative Essay cover: Prompt, Text, Notes & More, showing a writing prompt, Mount Rushmore article and notes, Grades 6-8
Overview of the text-based writing materials in this set
Dear Teacher letter on Pixanotes, Cornell-style notes with fill-in blanks and picture flaps, plus two ways to fill them
Background reading for planning how to run the note-taking
Table of contents: prompt and texts, four Pixanotes versions by scaffolding level, word bank, dominoes and organizers
Use to pick the notes version that fits each learner
Writing prompt: students read two texts and explain why Pipestone National Monument and Mount Rushmore deserve protection
Display or hand out before students read the source texts
Pipestone National Monument article: students read about pipe carving traditions and the restored tall grass prairie
Source text 1 for marking evidence and citing in the essay
Mount Rushmore article: students read about carving four Presidents, the Hall of Records vault and surrounding prairie
Source text 2; pair with the Pipestone article for evidence
Pixanotes instructions: six steps for filling blanks by video or word bank, gluing picture flaps and Hide and Peek study
Teacher steps for running the interactive notes lesson

Answer key included

Answer key included
Attributes
Subject

ELA, Writing

Grades

Grade 6, 7, 8

Types

Lesson Plans, Teacher Tools

File

PDF

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

This is an Informative Essay Unit designed with your middle school students in mind.

This comes with writing prompts, texts, notes and more.

Students will read informative texts, complete Pixanotes, play games and more.

All you have to do is print and go.

What's Included

36-page PDF

Resource Tags

informative essay writing unit writing prompts reading posters graphic organizers

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