literary essay

Theme anchor chart. Help students learn about the theme of a story. For more…

Some people found it difficult in class to write a conclusion for their research paper. Mrs. Lewis contributed into giving us easy steps that would make us understand in a clearer manner on how to write a conclusion without any difficulties. This summarizes it all on what to do, what to avoid, and words that can help build up a strong conclusion.

Theme Anchor Chart, Reading Notebook Anchor Charts at your students' fingertips! This resource included Elements of a Story, Goal Setting, Point of View, Genre Charts and so much more!

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These materials will help you implement a literary analysis essay with your students. In the spirit of getting away from the five paragraph essay, it includes an outline template for a four-paragraph literary analysis, a peer-editing worksheet, and a rubric.

To read my post that I wrote last year about our literary essay unit, click here. Each time we begin a new type of writing in writing workshop, we immerse ourselves in a whole class inquiry to read mentor writing pieces. As we read an example together, we discuss what characteristics we notice in this type of writing as well as similarities and differences to the writing we did in our previous unit. Below are two charts we created in our first 2 days of our literary essay unit. The first…

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What Makes a Literary Essay.

literary essays, writing about reading

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Baby Literary Essay

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Theme Anchor Chart, plus tips on teaching students how to identify themes in literature. FREE posters, too!

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The basics of a conclusion for an expository essay.