Do you or your students sit down to an essay prompt and discover that you have no ideas? Watch this video for some ways to prepare ideas ahead of time:

Click here to download the Essay Oasis handout: Essay Oasis

Click here to download the Essay Oasis Development handout: Essay Oasis Development

I can’t recommend these books by Gretchen Bernabei and her co-authors highly enough:

Crunchtime by Gretchen Bernabei, Jayne Hover, and Cynthia Candler: http://www.qepbooks.com/Crunchtime

by Gretchen Bernabei, Jayne Hover, and Cynthia Candler: http://www.qepbooks.com/Crunchtime The Story of My Thinking: Expository Writing Activities for 13 Teaching Situations by Gretchen Bernabei and Dorothy Hall: http://www.qepbooks.com/Story-of-My-Thinking–The

And here are some free reproducibles that go with each book, from the publisher (scroll down to Companion Resources):

Crunchtime : http://www.heinemann.com/products/E02673.aspx

: http://www.heinemann.com/products/E02673.aspx The Story of My Thinking : http://www.heinemann.com/products/E04239.aspx

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