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STAAR Kernel Essay Planning Sheets
Love Gretchen Bernabei's kernel essay structure, but you need a planning sheet? Use this with your students to help them throughout the writing process.
Check out more of her stuff on http://trailofbreadcrumbs.net.
After downloading the pdf, if you'd love a Google doc format of this template to modify for your students, please contact me at shellhorses@woisd.net.
4th - 12th
English Language Arts, Writing-Essays, Writing-Expository
Kernel Essay Template
This is a resource, developed by Gretchen Bernabei, that helps teach and enage students who struggle with developing their ideas and structuring their essays. The Kernel Essay Template is a graphic organizer for planning out essays and has an attached rubric.
3rd - 12th
English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays
Kernel Essays
If you use kernel essays from Gretchen Bernabei, then this resource is for you! It contains graphic organizers for kernel essays with 3, 4, and 5 kernels and includes both PDF and digital versions of everything.
2nd - 6th
Reading, Writing, Writing-Essays
Informative Kernel Essay
Unlock the power of Kernel Essays! The informative Kernel Essay will help you grasp the main points effortlessly. It is a concise roadmap to understanding complex topics. Dive in and discover the key insights today.
4th - 9th
English Language Arts
CCSS
W.6.2
, W.6.2a
Kernel Essay
A kernel essay is a way to help students stay organized. It's a great way to start a story and ask if the essay grabs the reader's attention. Students can use the text structure as a guide by creating one sentence per box.
Adapted from Trail of Breadcrumbs - Gretchen Bernabei
4th
Writing-Essays, Writing-Expository
Kernel Essay Research Paper Notes
Use these student friendly recording sheets to guide your students as they use text structure and kernel essay strategies to guide them in their research writing. These note sheets include space for: brainstorming research questionscreating a text structure or filling in a teacher's choicestrategizing keywords to aid in researchtracking topics and researcha kernel essayMLA fill in the blank citationsI use these sheets to let students create their own structure for writing AND for utilizing Gret
4th - 8th
English Language Arts
Kernel Essay Book
Have you taught your students how to write a personal narrative essay in a kernel essay format, but feel that they need more structured practice? Try using this product! This product includes:
-A Thanksgiving Break cover page
-A Winter Break cover page
-A Spring Break cover page
-A Kernel Essays seed collection page
-Kernel Essay anchor chart
-Kernel Essay Plan page
-Final Copy page
Kernel Essay Book by Jessica McAllister is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDeri
1st - 5th
Creative Writing, Writing-Essays
Kernel Essay - History Writing - Sam Houston
This Google Doc assignment uses the Kernel Essay sentence starters to help students create their own essay of Sam Houston. You can edit this doc or add the information you would like your students to know.
4th - 9th
Social Studies, Writing, Writing-Essays
Bernabei's Kernel Essay Template
A digital version of the Kernel Essay idea from Gretchen Bernabei- A fabulous pre-writing and planning organizer for any type of writing!
4th - 8th
English Language Arts
Kernel Essay: Memory Reflection
Students will write a personal narrative using the kernel essay format. There is a PowerPoint that walks students through a quick list, the kernel essay, Ba-Da-Bing, and first draft.
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Writing-Essays
Memory Kernel Essay
Great to use for personal narrative pre-writing.
4th - 12th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Informational Text
Thesis Writing with Key Words/Kernels
Teach students to identify key words/kernels in a writing prompt or question. Then have students flip the question and write a thesis statement by using the identified key words/kernels from the prompt. Students must explain how, why, or because in order to form a strong thesis statement. Peer grading/evaluation checklist is included. Based on peer suggestions, students correct their thesis statements before turning in the activity for a grade. The partial suggested key can be projected--vo
7th - 10th
English Language Arts
The Odyssey Kernel Writing
Essay frame for use with the Odyssey which employs Gretchen Bernabei's kernel writing structure. Students focus on art and a truism or quote before connecting both to literature, film and life.
5th - 7th
English Language Arts, Writing
STAAR Expistory Essay for Night by Elie Wiesel - 9th Grade
This includes a STAAR expository essay prompt for the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, a sample kernel prewriting, a brainstorming sheet, a 26-lined STAAR writing page, and the STAAR expository essay rubric from TEA. For more information about the kernel prewriting, see Gretchen Bernabie's website at www.discover-writing.com/gretchen.html.
9th
ELA Test Prep, Writing-Expository
modified template letter to myself w/extra sentence frames ab rdg
kernel essay modified organizer letter to self with sentence frames for planning draft extra sentence frames ab wrtg Using the planning sheet, scaffolding and sentence frames, students reflect on their goals and look back and see how they have grown and matured throughout the year. Reflection activity for students at the beginning or end of the school year. Students write a letter to their future selves using the planning sheet and boxes to help guide them as they write their letters. How to
1st - 12th
English Language Arts
simple modified organizer letter to self w/sentence frames & paragraph frames
Kernel essay, with a simple modified organizer for a letter to self writing activity w/sentence frames and paragraph frames.For ELL/LEP, dyslexic, general education, resource and special education students.
1st - 12th
minimum modified organizer letter to myself w/sentence frames
kernel essay minimum modified organizer letter to self with sentence frames and letter frames Using the planning sheet, scaffolding and sentence frames, students reflect on their goals and look back and see how they have grown and matured throughout the year. Reflection activity for students at the beginning or end of the school year. Students write a letter to their future selves using the planning sheet and boxes to help guide them as they write their letters. How to address an envelope can a
1st - 12th
English Language Arts, Writing-Expository
Essay Brainstorming Activity (For Remote Learning or In-Person)
This lesson has students use the Kernel method to brainstorm a personal narrative essay. The Kernel method for brainstorming can be used for all types of writing, so the prompt can easily be changed to satisfy your particular needs. This lesson was designed to be used in a remote learning setting via a digital platform (like Google Slides), but it can be used in an in-person setting as well.
6th - 12th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing-Essays
Wonder Precept Writing
A graphic organizer based Using Gretchen Bernabei's kernel writing structure. Students will build an essay connecting Wonder to themselves, film, their community, and the world.
5th - 7th
Writing, Writing-Essays
Wonder Lesson Ideas
Lesson Plan for novel study on Wonder by R.J. Palacio. Included are objectives, procedures, sample vocabulary, sample Socratic seminar questions, kernel essay structure, and movie trailer project guidelines. My class likes to adapt materials as we work through a novel, so this is a basic framework we modify.
7th - 8th
English Language Arts, Literature, Writing
Scaffolded Personal Narrative Writing Calendar with Graphic Organizer
This digital product bundle allows students to practice writing prompt based personal narratives with daily guidance. This calendar includes a kernel essay graphic organizer that can be used as an example to model for students.
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2nd - 4th
English Language Arts, Writing-Essays
Skeleton Essay Lesson using Saved by the Bell!
If your students need a crash course in essay writing, you're in the right place! This lesson uses the Gretchen Barnabei kernel essay strategy (Nicknamed a Skeleton essay) to help students gain a foundational understanding of essay organization. The lesson also goes through the difference between short answer and extended constructed responses on STAAR and shows students how to attack these questions on the test. -All documents are editable. This lesson was designed for 2 90 minute blocks but ca
5th - 9th
English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays
Expository Response Essay
Updated! 4/8/18 Students will received a second response essay that hopefully is much easier to write. Students will use a kernel essay with a PowerPoint that will walk them through the process. You will need to access materials from the Trail of Breadcrumbs website.
This is a response to expository text essay about a nonfiction book or article students have read in class. Also known as a nonfiction text response.
You receive:
--outline
--revise/edit checklist
--rubric
--correction sheet
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7th - 8th
English Language Arts, Writing-Expository
Sentence Expansion (Grades 3 and up) - Mini Unit
Expanded Sentences Mini Unit: What is it? - This mini unit is intended for students in grades 3 and above. It focuses on taking a kernel starting sentence and expanding it to include the “who”, “what”, “when”, “where”, and “why”. This idea is based on the Writing Revolution Theory. What’s Included?- 26-Slide in-depth and explicit Presentation (Matches student handout) - 15-Page Student Guide that allows them to not only follow along but also practice. - Expanded Sentence Structure Poster for Cla
3rd - 7th
Literature, Writing, Writing-Essays
CCSS
W.4.1
, W.4.2
, W.4.3
+8
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