How to Write a Paragraph With Ease

March 17th, 2016

Activities to Learn How to Write a Paragraph

Often teachers presume their students know how to write a paragraph. They assign them to write a paragraph and expect them to know how to do it. This makes paragraph writing difficult. Without specific instruction taught repeatedly, students do NOT typically know how to write a paragraph. Mastering any type of writing needs both practice and review, including a review of the step-by-step instructions.

Instead of presuming that your kids know how to write a paragraph or a paper, provide them with structure, with step-by-step instruction.

Assignment: I want you to write one paragraph about the favorite thing/worst thing you did over the weekend.

Think about what was the best thing that you did over the weekend.
Or, what was the worst thing that happened over the weekend?

Maybe you went on a trip, took a class, to the swimming pool often, to the park, to the zoo, or visited family?

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Start your topic sentence by writing, ‘The best thing that happened to me over the weekend was…’ or, ‘The best thing I did over the weekend was…’ or, ‘The worst thing that I did ….’ or, ‘The worst thing that happened to me was…’.
Go into some specific ideas about that specific instance.
Finally, wrap it up with ‘That’s why I had the best time doing ________,’ or, ‘That’s why _____________ was the ____________.

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