Planning a lesson on essay writing can be difficult – even for you, lover of language – to get excited about.

The Essay Planner Teacher’s Kit has been created to provide you with a bank of information, strategies and resources that will help you show your students not only what essay writing is, but also why they have to do it and why it is such a powerful form of writing. 

The essay is without peer in its ability to encourage and enable students to think deeply and critically about a topic. Designed from a student-centred perspective, the worksheets, games and presentations available in this Teacher’s Kit will help you to inspire your students and shape their learning.

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  Make your Essays Rock

  This interactive PowerPoint presentation is a great introductory lesson on essay writing. It covers everything from different types of essays to plagiarism, the structure of an essay, editing and strategies for exam essays. Class discussion questions and activities are included throughout. We recommend using this presentation to prepare the class for playing Essay Head or Essay Trivia.

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  Essay Head

  Based on the popular game Celebrity Head, Essay Head encourages students to test their own knowledge of the various aspects of essay writing in a fun, team-focused way. This resource includes 15 Essay Head origami hats with key essay-writing terms and a teacher’s prompt sheet with review questions to ask the whole class after an Essay Head has been guessed the correctly, as well as a set of suggestions to help students who are struggling to guess their Essay Head to ask meaningful questions.

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  Essay Trivia

  Your classroom will come alive with Essay Trivia. Students work in small groups to answer a series of five rounds of questions:

  • Round One: Planning
  • Round Two: What type of Essay Am I?
  • Round Three: Researching and Writing
  • Round Four: True or False?
  • Round Five: Exam Essays

  This resource includes Questions and Marker Guide sheets with five rounds of essay trivia questions and answers, as well as student Answer Sheets tailored for each round with clear instructions.