Teaching paragraphs

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!

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

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.

An experienced 4th grade teacher's tips to develop strong writers who are capable of writing a quality paragraph including a topic sentence, supporting details that are relevant to the topic, and a satisfying conclusion sentence! Transitional words/phrases are emphasized as well as the mechanics of indenting the start of each paragraph.

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

Do you have struggling writers who just don't seem to be growing? Do you have reluctant writers who don't seem to get much writing completed? In every class that I have ever taught, there has always been a handful of kiddos that just don't like writing. These students can be toughest to reach. You have

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.

Learn how to teach paragraph writing and paragraph structure with these simple strategies! Students will be writing paragraphs in no time!

how to write a paragraph

When teaching narrative writing in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade, there are so many writing skills to cover. They range from creating a sequence of events (beginning, middle, and end) to more difficult