Lumen Learning
Lumen: Putting It Together: Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay
This instructional activity focuses on strategies for moving essay writing beyond the five-paragraph essay structure to one whose structure is determined by the content. W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing
TES Global
Blendspace: Space Exploration 5 Paragraph Persuasive Essay
Learn to write a five-paragraph persuasive essay by working through six links to videos, graphic organizers, and activities on space exploration.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Formulaic vs. Organic Structure
This activity focuses on the difference between formulaic writing such as the five-paragraph essay and an organic structure that puts forward an arguable statement.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Expository Essay: State Trip
After researching a place/event of interest in Alabama, students write a five-paragraph essay. Students include maps and written directions to the location, describe activities and/or events associated with this location, include in this...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Hershey Kiss Descriptive Essay
This is a fun lesson to demonstrate the power of words to describe a simple chocolate treat prior to writing a five-paragraph descriptive essay.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Better Living Through Science
This lesson involves research on scientists whose accomplishments have impacted areas of nutrition, sanitation, or health care. Young scholars will research an area of their choice, record information on a graphic organizer, and use the...
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Making an Outline
A tip sheet on how to create and outline for a research paper.