Paragraph Writing aims at teaching beginning paragraph writing skills. Teaching ideas, student reproducibles and writing forms over these topics: * identifying parts of a paragraph - main idea/topic sentences, supporting details
* writing various types of paragraphs - descriptive, narrative, directions, compare & contrast; 21 different writing forms are provided.
* planning paragraphs using a web and an outline
An additional feature of Paragraph Writing is a writing center that includes ready-to-use materials - sentences to sequence to make paragraphs, picture cards to write about, and topic sentence paragraph starters. Some suggested topics include: Lunch Time, Let's Eat, What a Noise!, Unusual Places, I'm So Excited, My Best Friend, The First and Sixteenth Presidents, How to Fix a Sandwich, Bats and Birds, Party Time, Spiders in the Bedroom, Planet X, Monkey Snack, and many more.
There are plenty of reproducibles and humorous illustrations throughout. All 80 pages perforated for easy removal.
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