ELA Freebies

PROS stands for:
  • Polestar Focus
  • Rules of Conventions
  • Organization
  • Support (Evidence and Elaboration)
This freebie includes a model of organization for an informative/explanatory essay and another copy of the same essay for you or your students to cut up and put in order as a hands-on activity.  Click on the picture above to be taken to this freebie!  :)



This freebie is a cloze passage that I created using many of the terms that students need to know in order to write an informative or explanatory text based essay.  

The terms are "hook", answer, thesis, transition, claim, opposing, cite, evidence, commentary, elaboration, example, conclusion.

Click on the picture above to be taken to this freebie!  :)