Essay Writing Activities & Graphic Organizers Writing Essays and Analyzing Text

Save money and time by purchasing this Essay Writing Package, complete with 5 different types of essays that your students will need in their academic careers:

1. Advantages and Disadvantages
2. The Opinion Essay
3. Compare and Contrast
4. Problem and Solution
5. Cause and Effect

This Essay Writing Bundle includes a suite of writing activities that are perfect for grade 8-11 students who need practice writing essays:

• textual analysis questions
• key essay language for each type of essay
• station tasks & task cards
• structure analysis of each essay
• practice summarizing
• practice brainstorming
• practice writing supporting ideas
• practice writing opinion, compare and contrast, problem and solution, cause and effect, & advantage and disadvantage essays based on prompts

The entire package of essay activities is ideal for English Language Arts classes or with ELL and ESL learners in grades 8 through 11 who are learning how to write. Each resource, 5 in total, can be used for supplementary material, homework or, with the comprehensive lesson plan, as a separate classroom lesson on text analysis and essay writing. It also works great for adult learners who are studying for their GED!

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✅ The Most Impactful Way to Teach Essay Writing: Have your students go deeper into the design of each essay by reverse-engineering them! That’s Right! This resource uses text analysis questions that learners use to deconstruct an opinion, compare and contrast, problem and solution, cause and effect, & advantage and disadvantage essay paragraph-by-paragraph. They’ll do this using sample essays on each for looking at context, use of language, and structure. This gets students to think about an essay’s structure organically from the bottom-up.

✅ Graphic Organizers for Essay Writing: Your students will love the step-by-step guidance they get in each graphic organizer. They’ll see suggested paragraph lengths, structures, and language tips as they prepare and, eventually, write their own essay. With 40 essay prompts across 5 types of essays, your students will get more than enough practice in each essay.

✅ Essay Writing Practice using Task Cards: This Essay Writing Package has specific writing tasks that get students to practice different parts of essay writing before setting off and writing their own. Included are 100 different essay writing activities for practicing different parts of an opinion, compare and contrast, problem and solution, cause and effect, & advantage and disadvantage essay. Presented on easy-to-use task cards, your students can use these to practice…

• summarizing
• brainstorming
• restating a writing prompt
• using specific language for each essay
• writing supporting ideas
• and MORE specific to the type of essay

✅ Keep the Class Engaged with Catchy Topics: You don’t have to worry about your students getting off task when using this essay writing package, either. All essays that they study are based on topics that they are sure to be interested in. They’ll be analyzing and, eventually, writing their own essays on topics like cyberbullying, studying abroad, climate change, YouTube and TikTok, and the dangers of Fast Food.

✅ No Planning; Just Teaching: This Essay Writing Bundle gives you your prep-time back with the pre-planned lesson plans, included for each resource. The lesson plans are incredibly easy-to-use and gives you ideas on how to introduce each essay topic in a fun way. You’ll get a pacing structure that scaffolds the learning for you, different teaching ideas for each essay type, and answer keys for the analysis parts. Simply print out the student pages and follow the pre-planned lesson plans.

WHAT TEACHERS on TpT ARE SAYING:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Heather said, “This is a very thorough resource and hence a major time-saver. Teacher’s notes, sample essay, analysis, analysis questions, step-by-step planning, useful phrases were so helpful. Thank you.”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Alexis said, “Used it to help students pass their ABE/GED writing assessment. Works great!”

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This package includes a PDF files that can be opened using your preferred PDF reader. It comes with a lesson plans and a high-resolution cover page for each resource.

⭐ Get the Bundle for Big Savings ⭐

This Essay Writing Package is also part of my 21st Century Language Learning Bundle. Purchase it now and get this bundle of writing resources, plus other resources for teaching language through exciting topics like Black Holes and Bilingualism.

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Terms of Use:

This resource was created by Landon S. Seigler of ESL Lifeline, all rights are reserved. The original purchaser is permitted to use it for a single class only. Teachers have the authorization to share this product with their students (and parents) through email, Google Classroom, or the Internet, as long as the site is password protected. Distribution to your own students is allowed, but uploading it to the Internet for public access and download is not permitted.

**If you wish to use this resource for multiple classrooms or share it with fellow educators, please purchase additional licenses.  Your adherence to these usage terms is greatly appreciated.