Essay Writing Handouts, Graphic Organizers, Checklists, MLA, and Rubric

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Essay Writing Handouts, Graphic Organizers, Checklists, MLA, and Rubric: Streamline the essay writing process for both you and your students with this comprehensive set of essay handouts, graphic organizers, checklists, and much more. From informative handouts on formal writing using transitions, and MLA format to practical graphic organizers for essay outline planning and meticulous checklists and rubrics these tools are adaptable across subjects, making essay format less daunting. Elevate the essay-writing experience with these ready-to-print materials.

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Included in this Essay Writing Handouts Resource:

➡️ 5 Paragraph Essay Outline and Brainstorming Templates: These five essay online graphic organizers can be shared with students to provide them with a visual way to organize their essays based on the information in the presentation. One outline is a single page for more bullet point planning. The other includes detailed information for students on what should be included in each section with more space to plan.

➡️ Essay Structure Checklist: Students can use this essay checklist as a self-assessment to complete when they have finished their rough draft to ensure they have included all the elements required in a five-paragraph essay.

➡️ Academic Dictionary Formal Writing Handout: Share this reference handout with students to use while they are writing their essays. The handout provides examples of more informal word choices with stronger formal writing alternatives. This will be an invaluable resource for students when they need to improve their writing to make it more formal.

➡️ Using Transitions Handout: Help your students bridge the gap between their ideas with this handout that provides stronger word choices for transitions. Students will be given a list of transitions in a formal writing style that will help them add information, show time or sequence, introduce an example, compare ideas, show emphasis, give reasons, and show cause and effect.

➡️ Writing Traits Checklist: Use this checklist for students to review their writing for the different writing traits to ensure they have used good word choices, organization, conventions and more.

➡️ MLA Formatting Handbook: Students can use this MLA student reference handbook as they write their essays. This reference will be invaluable as it contains information about in-text citations, quotes, the works cited page, and much more.

➡️ MLA Formatting Checklist: A checklist is also provided for students to do a self-evaluation to ensure they have followed the MLA formatting rules before submitting their final copy.

➡️ Essay Writing Teacher Rubric: This ready-to-print essay rubric will allow you to grade student essays quickly and easily. The rubric focuses on the introduction, body, conclusion, and conventions.

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