5 Paragraph Argument Essay Writing Practice

This is a step by step outline students can use to practice writing an argumentative essay. Includes an entire completed sample essay. Pieces of the sample essay are used as examples for each part of the essay.

The prompt is, "Do you think that cellphone use in school should be banned? Write an essay explaining why or why not." However, you can change this and make it your own.

PLEASE NOTE: I did NOT use actual evidence within the sample essay - this evidence was entirely made up and did not come from real sources.

I have based the essay's structure on the new FSA guidelines for the FSA Writes Argumentative Essay. In each body paragraph, a counterclaim is addressed and evidence is pulled from the text to show why that counterclaim is not sufficient to prove the student's argument wrong.

UPDATED 04/06/21

**I have updated this product to include 2 actual text sources (pages 26 - 36) for the students to use when they practice writing their argument.**

**I have also removed the Hook practice from the Introduction Paragraph, as the FSA's guidelines no longer include students opening their essay with a "hook" or "attention-grabber".**