Teaching paragraphs

Teaching students how to write a paragraph is not an easy task! Especially since many children struggle to put their thoughts down on paper.

Writing lessons should be fun! Once kids get hooked on writing, they wanted to be better writers and are more willing to work on paragraphs that tell a story they care about. You don’t need a separate unit for teaching paragraphs. Rather, you can teach paragraph writing within each specific genre of writing. Let's find out how!

Help your students expand their writing skills with these teaching ideas on writing a paragraph before they need to know how to write a multi-paragraph.

Developing students’ writing takes practice and hard work throughout the year, and it can be difficult to transition young students’ basic writing into detailed and descriptive sentences. Teaching early writing components such as... #creativewritingcenters #creativewritingprompts #expandedsentences

Paragraph writing is a big challenge for many students. This post includes a step-by-step method to help your students write great paragraphs in no time.

Follow this step-by-step lesson plan to teach your students how

Do you use the Hamburger Model to teach paragraph writing? I used to use generic organizers and it worked okay but I noticed that it was dif...

So you’ve taught your students to write sentences. Now what? In the beginning of my career, we worked HARD on writing sentences. When it came time to take the next step into writing paragraphs, I found this was even harder for my students. We were able to write 2-3 sentences about a topic or picture, ... Read More about How to Scaffold Paragraph Writing for Special Education

Help your students expand their writing skills with these teaching ideas on writing a paragraph before they need to know how to write a multi-paragraph.

Are you teaching your first and second grade students how to write a paragraph but feel like you’re getting nowhere? Today I am sharing four steps that will help you use this writing workshop model to teach your 1st and 2nd-grade students how to write a paragraph. I like to explicitly teach what a paragraph is and then identify the different parts of a paragraph. I like to use writing anchor charts and graphic organizers to help my students through the writing process.