Writing Centers | Essay Practice Centers Stations BUNDLE | Middle School
Your Middle School students need to practice the text-based essay skills of Focus, Organization, Support and Conventions, but they don't want to write a-n-o-t-h-e-r essay! And you don't want to grade another essay either! So use these interactive and engaging practice centers instead!
Included in this Bundle:
✅ Focus Practice: THREE different centers for Purpose, Audience and Task with EIGHT different activities!
✅ Organization Practice: FOUR centers with Text-based Vocabulary with interactive notebook foldable and cloze activity, Informative Essay Organization practice with a hands-on activity, Argumentative Essay Organization practice with checking an essay against a rubric, Hook and Answer Practice with 4 Task Cards
✅ Support Practice: Two texts about Stonehenge with a prompt + THREE Centers: Relevant vs. Irrelevant evidence sort, Writing commentary to explain evidence, Anticipating Opposing Claims
✅ Conventions Practice: THREE Centers for Complete sentences, Capitalization and Punctuation Practice.
✅ Answer Keys
➡️ That's a total of THIRTEEN centers - enough to last a MONTH or more!
Your students will love the variety of essay practice activities that get them involved and you will love that they are practicing and learning this valuable skill with less work for you!
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Shanna G. said, "This is so helpful! I always want to use stations but never have the time to create them. Thanks!" - from the support centers
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jennifer M. said, "Good practice for the students! I used these as part of my centers for test prep practice." - from the conventions centers
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Melanie S. said, "My students had been struggling with putting together all of the parts of an essay. They were completing the assignments I gave them, but I could tell that it wasn't really "clicking" yet. After having them work through these centers, they seemed to better understand the organization of an essay and have begun to become better writers." - from the organization centers
SUPPORTS COMMON CORE STANDARDS:
CCRA.W.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCRA.W.9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
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More great essay writing resources you will love:
Informative Essay Introduction Practice
Informative Essay Body Paragraph Practice
Argumentative Introduction Practice
Argumentative Body Paragraph Practice
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