Teaching paragraphs

The easiest way to teach your child how to write a paragraph is to use these FREE Hamburger Paragraph Printables! Make teaching a breeze!

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.

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

I’m not a betting girl . . . but if I were, I’d bet that many of you start the year with a unit about paragraph writing. Am I right? I thought so. It’s pretty common to begin your writing instruction with a unit on “how to write a paragraph." Typical lessons include what a

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 expanding sentences, beginning paragraphs, identifying topic...

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

Make teaching paragraph writing a breeze with our Five-Day Lesson Plan! Equip your students with the ability to write clear topic sentences, detailed supporting details, and strong conclusion sentences. This plan includes hands-on activities and peer review to reinforce paragraph structure and organization.

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

Looking for some help with teaching paragraph writing to your kids? Check out this step-by-step approach for an easier writing process!

A writing template to help children when structuring text types.