Five-Paragraph Thesis-Driven Reading-Based Essay Paragraph # 1: Introduction. In

Five-Paragraph Thesis-Driven Reading-Based Essay
Paragraph # 1: Introduction. Introduce the topic. Tell what you know about the topic. Answer the essay question directly. This is your thesis/claim/position/or a focus of your writing.
Paragraph #2: Introduce your text by writing the title and the author’s name. Find in it the details about the topic that support your thesis/claim/position/or focus. Do not summarize the whole story. Use the exact words from the text only when you support your ideas with a quote. Otherwise, use your own words to tell what happened. Prove that what happened in the story explains your understanding of the topic. Use a transition to connect to the next paragraph (check the list of transitions)
Paragraph#3.Explain the reasons you think events in the story happened that way and not differently. Use a transition to connect to the next paragraph (check the list of transitions)
Paragraph#4. Use the author’s messages from the text to tell about a real life situation that happened to you or somebody you know. Use a transition to the next paragraph (check the list of transitions)
Paragraph#5. Summarize briefly what you’ve said above. Restate your introduction and write what you’ve learned in the process of reading and writing about the text. Read your essay and check if you completed your assignment.