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Five-Paragraph Essay Lesson Plan: Producing Writing
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic, Five-Paragraph Essay , and addresses standards about developing an organized piece of writing with a clear thesis, relevant details, and a concluding statement. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
As a class, or individually, have students read Tim’s model essay, The Case For a Longer School Year. Ask:
- What argument is Tim making in his essay?
- What are his reasons or evidence for his argument?
- Is Tim’s argument persuasive? Why or why not?
- What is the purpose of the first paragraph? middle paragraphs? Last paragraph?
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
- Read aloud the description on the Five-Paragraph Essay topic page .
- Play the Movie , pausing to check for understanding.
- Pair students and have them read one of the two Related Readings articles, then share what they learned with each other.
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Students take the Five-Paragraph Essay Quiz , applying essential literacy skills while demonstrating what they learned about this topic.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about writing five-paragraph essays while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student needs.
- Make-a-Movie : Produce a movie where you present a persuasive argument that follows the format of a five-paragraph essay.
- Make-a-Map : Create a concept map that shows the features of each paragraph in a five-paragraph essay.
- Creative Coding : Code a meme that shows the benefits of using the five-paragraph essay format.
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Related BrainPOP Topics : Deepen understanding of the writing process with these topics: Types of Writing , Writing in Sequence , Research , and Outlines .
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Informational essay: editing, view aligned standards.
Editing and fine-tuning a piece of written text is the focus of this informational writing lesson plan. Students will have the opportunity to strengthen their informational essay drafts by correcting errors in conventions and mechanics. Using an editing checklist and peer review to guide this critical step in the writing process, this lesson will help prepare students for the final step in the writing process: publishing their final draft.
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to make edits to their informational essay draft to eliminate errors in conventions and mechanics.
Introduction
- Ask students to reflect about the current status of their informational essay and determine if it is ready for publishing. Ask them to think about what else they need to do in order to fine-tune their essay prior to publishing.
- Call on volunteers to share their reflections.
- Review the steps of the writing process that they have completed up to this point: brainstorming/prewriting, drafting, revising. Explain that the next step in writing an effective informational essay is editing.
- Emphasize that today, writers will focus on editing, which is when you take a close look at the words and sentences that you use, fixing any problems with grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure.
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Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. ... Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly. ... Support claim(
Taking a few minutes to outline your essay before or after you begin writing will help you organize your ideas and group them effectively throughout your essay.
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Five-Paragraph Essay Lesson Plan: Producing Writing · Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE · Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE · Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS · Step 4: DEEPEN and
In this informational writing lesson plan, students will use their organized notes to create an essay outline. They will begin to write out key pieces of
Introduction · Ask students to reflect about the current status of their informational essay and determine if it is ready for publishing. · Call on volunteers to
Target Audience: This lesson can be used in almost any class that teaches elements of writing, as introductions are needed in any essay written at the
Lesson plan: Structuring your essay ... but there will be elements of planning and writing/content in the session but in terms of how it.