Planning your essay plus more...

The prompt says: Write an informative essay to present to your class about the benefits of reading for pleasure on a daily basis.

What is the prompt asking you to do? Write the question in the response box.

Answer explanation

You can always find the question in the prompt. In this prompt, it is telling you to write about the benefits of reading for pleasure on a daily basis, so the question I would ask myself as I read through the text sources would be:

What are the benefits of reading for pleasure on a daily basis?

After you write down the question you will be thinking about from the prompt, and start looking through the text sources, how many benefits of reading for pleasure will you be looking for?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

As you are reading through all of the text sources, looking for the benefits of reading for pleasure, what else will you be doing that will help you save time later?

• Skimming over the text instead of reading it carefully.

• Only reading the first paragraph of each text and looking at any pictures.

• Underlining any good evidence that supports some of the benefits of reading for pleasure that I may use in my essay.

• Underlining almost everything in the text.

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CCSS.RF.4.4B

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4B

CCSS.RI.6.10

After you have read the text sources, and decided on the benefits of reading for pleasure that you want to include in your essay, what is your next step?

• To write your thesis statement out on your planning sheet and include the 2 benefits you chose.

• To start writing your introduction paragraph, starting with the hook.

• To start writing your introduction paragraph on your planning sheet.

• To start your first body paragraph with your topic sentence/mini-thesis.

Which of the following, would be a well-written thesis statement, based on the prompt?: Write an informative essay to present to your class about the benefits of reading for pleasure on a daily basis.

• Reading can benefit you in many ways.

• Have you ever thought about how reading for pleasure can benefit you? Well, it can help you in lots of ways.

• Reading for pleasure every day is something everyone should do to become better at vocabulary and to be able to be a better writer.

• There are many benefits to reading for pleasure on a daily basis, but two helpful ones are that it improves your vocabulary and it makes you a better writer.

Now, that you have your thesis statement planned out, the best thing to do next before actually starting to write your essay would be to ____

• Make a list of all the books you have ever read for pleasure and if you liked them.

• Go back into the text sources and decide on 2 pieces of evidence to use for the benefit of improving vocabulary and 2 evidences for improving your writing.

• Nothing left to do, just start writing.

• Think about how reading for pleasure might not really benefit you at all.

Now that you know which evidence you are going to use, it's time to start your essay. What's the first sentence in your introduction?

• Thesis statement

• Hook

• Background info.

• Topic sentence

Choose the word that fills in the blank.

The thesis statement is the ________ sentence in the introduction paragraph.

• first

• second

• third

• last

Now it's time to start your first body paragraph.

Where do you get the information to form the first sentence (the TOPIC sentence)?

• From the looking at the thesis statement and the first topic, (first benefit of reading) I put in my thesis statement.

• From looking at the prompt on the first page of the FSA writing packet.

• From looking in the text sources.

• I just make it up from in my head.

After I write my topic sentence (or mini-thesis) in my body paragraph, what are the other things I need to include in the body paragraph, and in what order?

• Elaboration

  Evidence (cited)

  Elaboration

  Evidence (cited)

• Evidence (cited)

  Elaboration

  Wrap-up

• Evidence (cited)

  Elaboration

  Evidence (Cited)

  Elaboration

  Wrap-up

• Evidence (cited)

  Elaboration

  Evidence (cited)

  Elaboration