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This Seeing the Big Picture - Incorporating Thesis, Evidence, Elaboration, and Concluding Statements in Your Essay: Elements of an Essay lesson plan also includes:
- Seeing the Big Picture: Incorporating Thesis, Evidence, Elaboration, and Concluding Statements in Your Essay (.pdf)
- Lesson Slides (.pptx)
- Sentence Strips - English (.pdf)
- Sentence Strips - English (.docx)
- Sentence Strips - Spanish (.pdf)
- Sentence Strips - Spanish (.docx)
- The Big Picture Handout 1 (.pdf)
- The Big Picture Handout 2 (.pdf)
- The Big Picture Handout 3 (.pdf)
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Writers examine the elements of an informational essay, identify them in several essay snapshots, and then craft their own to demonstrate what they have learned.
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Instructional Ideas
- Set aside extra prep time to print, laminate, and sort the sentence strips into envelopes for the groups
Classroom Considerations
- The directions for the activities are complicated; use the PowerPoint to guide the lesson
- Requires projection equipment for the PowerPoint as well as copies of several documents
Pros
- The lesson includes both a pre-test and a post-test
- Links are provided that explain the many learning strategies used in the lesson
Cons
- None