Thesis Statement – Skill Builder Series (Mystery)

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Updated 3 months ago

Lesson description

✍🏻 Curipod Skill Builder Series The ELA Skill Builder Series in Curipod offers engaging exercises that help students master writing and grammar skills. This whole class writing experience fosters a collaborative writing community through a blend of instruction, individual work, critical thinking, and classroom discussions. 🌟Writing a Thesis Statement: This lesson is the first lesson of the Curipod Essay Writing Skill Builder Series. This lesson focuses on building student skills in writing clear, defensible thesis statements. This lesson addresses the purpose of thesis statements, differentiates thesis statements from facts and opinions, provides students with a method for crafting thesis statements based on a given writing prompt and scaffolds students in building confidence while writing thesis statements through peer and AI feedback. ⏭ This lesson is followed by the next Skill Builder in the series "Leveling Up Your Thesis Statement" which covers targeting language used in the thesis statement to address audience and setting a tone through word choice. 🦸 Learning Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to write a thesis statement based on a given writing task. 🎯 Feedback: Students receive feedback to help them demonstrate this essential writing skill! 🛠 To Customize your Lesson: 1. Select your instructional subject area from the drop down. 2. Select the grade level from the drop down. 3. Enter in the topic of your instructional unit, for content-aligned example thesis statements! 4. Click Customize now to personalize your lesson! 🚀 Pro-Tips: Use this Skill Builder to help students build confidence in their Quick Writes! Tags: Skill Builder, Thesis Statement, Writing Basics, Writing Starter, Writing Prompts, Essay Writing, Writing Starter, Writing Skills