Essay Strategies Toolkit provides teachers a systematic approach to teaching the multi-paragraph essay. Students complete 42 sequenced writing strategy worksheets, at their own pace, beginning with simple three-word paragraphs and proceeding to complex multi-paragraph essays. By the end of the year, students who complete the program will have composed the eight complete Common Core Writing Standard essays.

Essay Strategy Worksheets. Get 42 sequential worksheets, each emphasizing a specific essay strategy. Students learn and apply the following skills: complete sentences, topic sentence-support detail hierarchy, the category principle, essay writing rules, transitions, 8 flexible paragraph structures, essay organization using a time-tested numerical hierarchy, 8 introduction strategies, 8 types of evidence and argument, and 8 conclusion strategies.

Differentiated/Individualized Instruction and Mastery Learning. Following a mastery learning model, a student completes an essay strategy worksheet, mini-conferences with the teacher in writers workshop, and then revises the writing per teacher guidance. The teacher formatively assesses student progress and assigns remediation as needed. Students much achieve mastery level before progressing to the next writing strategy worksheet. Teachers can easily substitute their own writing prompts or use those in the program. An "A," or appropriate number of points, is assigned for each mastered worksheet.

Grammatical Sentence Patterns. Students learn and apply 16 of the common grammatical sentence models in the context of authentic writing practice. Students revise sentences composed in prior worksheets with each of these grammatical patterns to improve writing dexterity and sentence variety.

Essay Posters. Get these wall posters to reference the essential strategies learned throughout this program:

*Essay Organization: The Numerical Hierarchy
*Essay Writing Rules
*The “to be” Verbs
*Pronouns
*Transition Words and Phrases
*Writing Direction Words (the Academic Language of Essays)
*Introduction Strategies
*Conclusion Strategies
*Types of Evidence

Materials in the Essay Strategies Toolkit (132 pages) have been selected from the comprehensive curriculum: Teaching Essay Strategies, by the same author (available here at TpT), and include content of this book, 64 sentence revision interactive lessons, 64 rhetorical stance quick writes, on-demand writing practice, remedial writing worksheets, and extensive mini-lessons. Everything the writing teacher needs to teach students to write coherent and unified essays is provided in this systematic, standards-based curriculum.