This unit has a total of 3 reading passages, teacher and student anchor charts, and 10 days of lesson plans to assist your students in learning all of the necessary skills to write an essay that answers a question asked about the text passage. This is a great unit for test prep writing practice.
Reading Response Essay Writing Unit
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Some teachers call this reading response. Some call it constructed response and others call it a literary essay. Students read a passage. They are given a question and expected to use text evidence to write an essay to answer the question.
This unit is intended to be used over a two-week time frame, but this can easily be adjusted to meet your needs.
This unit was written with 3rd and 4th grade in mind. I suggest looking over the preview to determine if it is a good fit for your specific class.
Included in this unit:
- Detailed teacher directions and suggestions for simple implementation
- 10 days of lesson plans that include guiding questions, materials, mini-lessons, student work tasks, and student share tasks
- 3 original text passages with constructed response questions. (These will be used for mini-lessons, student tasks, and an extra passage is included that can be used for more practice or as an assessment)
- 10 teacher anchor charts (blank and filled in versions)
- 8 Student anchor charts and printables
- Rubrics
- Publishing paper
Lessons Included:
- Reading for understanding
- How to mark up the question
- Restate part of the question
- Using evidence
- Referring to the text
- Explaining your answer
- Editing
- Publishing
A Typical Day:
Mini Lesson:
The unit includes 10 lesson plans with a suggested mini-lesson. The lessons include the use of 2 mentor text passages (that are included in the unit) and anchor charts. Teacher versions of the anchor chart are included in the unit so that the teacher can project them and fill them out with the class, or print them and display them in the classroom. Small versions are included for the students to fill out and keep in their writing notebooks as a reference and to help draft their essay.
Work Time:
Students will be applying the skill from the mini-lesson into their writing each day. The students will have 2 mentor text passages (Gavin Goofs Up and The Sleepover) that they will use to compare and contrast during this time.
Share Time:
Lesson plans include a specific task for students each day that allows them to share some piece of their writing with a partner or with the class.
How can I use this resource in my classroom?
There are many ways that this resource can be used. Here are some ideas:
- Whole group reading lesson
- Reading small group lesson
- Writing workshop
Please let me know if you have any questions.
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