{"id":632,"date":"2013-12-02T22:01:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T22:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/?p=632"},"modified":"2014-01-13T20:17:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T20:17:40","slug":"paragraph-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/paragraph-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Paragraph Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>img#mv-trellis-img-1::before{padding-top:100%; }img#mv-trellis-img-1{display:block;}<\/style><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456.jpg\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-650\" alt=\"Paragraph Writing Activities for 4th, 5th and 6th Grades by The Curriculum Corner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 24px), 720px\"><\/noscript><img loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-650 eager-load\" alt=\"Paragraph Writing Activities for 4th, 5th and 6th Grades by The Curriculum Corner\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20300%20300'%3E%3Crect%20width='300'%20height='300'%20style='fill:%23e3e3e3'\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 24px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456.jpg\" id=\"mv-trellis-img-1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456-300x300.jpg.webp\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456-300x300.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456-150x150.jpg.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456-768x768.jpg.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456-1024x1024.jpg.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456-400x400.jpg.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/para456.jpg.webp 1500w\" data-svg=\"1\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"><\/a>Though primary teachers work to help their younger students understand the importance of organization in writing, many times students still need practice in the intermediate grades.&nbsp; Beyond writing complete and detailed sentences, students need to understand&nbsp;that the development of paragraphs has to be approached in an organized way&nbsp;in order for their writing to be clear to readers.&nbsp; Here we have created some resources that can be used a number of different ways &ndash; guided as a mini-lesson, for review or for writing planning.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a paragraph flipbook that can be used to introduce or review the parts of a well-written paragraph.&nbsp;&nbsp;Print&nbsp;BOTH pages (front and inside) and then copy them back-to-back so that, when folded, the front covers the&nbsp;descriptions inside.&nbsp;&nbsp;(If you&rsquo;re like me&hellip;this may take a&nbsp;few attempts!)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Perfect Paragraphs Flipbook Inside Descriptions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner456.com\/wp-content\/pdf\/writing\/perfectparagraphsflipbook1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Perfect Paragraph Flipbook (Inside Descriptions)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Perfect Paragraphs Flipbook Cover\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner456.com\/wp-content\/pdf\/writing\/perfectparagraphsflipbook2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Perfect Paragraph Flipbook&nbsp;(Front)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to use the same idea, but have your students write descriptions along with you in a guided lesson OR even use it as a review after you&rsquo;ve taught the parts of&nbsp; a well-written paragraph, here is the&nbsp;inside of the&nbsp;flipbook without the descriptions:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Perfect Paragraphs Flipbook Blank Inside\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner456.com\/wp-content\/pdf\/writing\/perfectparagraphsflipbook1blank.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Perfect Paragraph Flipbook (Inside Blank)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once your students know what is involved in writing a good paragraph they can use the following organizer for a rough draft and then use the paper for a final draft.&nbsp; (Note &ndash; be sure to let them know that they are not limited to three detail sentences, but that they should (in most cases) have no more than five.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Perfect Paragraphs Graphic Organizer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner456.com\/wp-content\/pdf\/writing\/perfectparagraphsorganizer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Perfect Paragraph Graphic Organizer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Perfect Paragraphs Paper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner456.com\/wp-content\/pdf\/writing\/perfectparagraphspaper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Perfect Paragraph Lined Paper<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><strong>Another Idea:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most of you are familiar with the &ldquo;hamburger paragraph&rdquo; way of teaching paragraphs.&nbsp;(Top Bun&nbsp;= Topic Sentence, Hamburger &amp; Toppings = Detail Sentences, Bottom Bun = Conclusion Sentence).&nbsp; The following two graphic organizers (one is just more colorful) can be used if you have taught paragraph writing using that method.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hamburger Paragraph Organizer Black &amp; White\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner456.com\/wp-content\/pdf\/writing\/hamburgerparagraphorganizer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Hamburger Paragraph Organizer #1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hamburger Paragraph Organizer Colorful\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner456.com\/wp-content\/pdf\/writing\/hamburgerparagraphorganizer2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Hamburger Paragraph Organizer #2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though primary teachers work to help their younger students understand the importance of organization in writing, many times students still need practice in the intermediate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable-in-feed":false,"article-schema-type":"","disable-critical-css":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,27],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[3162,3168,3165,3161,3169,3163,3158,3166,627,3159,3157,3164,3167,3156,3155,3154,2318,140,3160,89],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-text-types-and-purposes"],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecurriculumcorner.com\/thecurriculumcorner456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}