Jill Hook

Students - even 3rd graders! - can write clear, organized literary essays. This is an anchor chart to support your writers in writing clear and organized literary essays! This could be added to your slide deck to display during lessons, printed on big paper to hang in your work space, or printed out as a mini tool for students to keep in their writing binders.

An anchor chart visual to help students understand how to lead into evidence and explain why it matters! Works for literary essays and other opinion writing.

A checklist to help writers self-assess when writing literary essays. Can be adapted to match your expectations.

Graphic organizer to help students retell stories sequentially. Students can connect a five finger retell to a written response. As a next step you could use this to scaffold students writing a retell or summary in paragraph form.