Paragraph of the Week: A Proven Writing System That Builds Confident Student Writers All Year GRADES 4-7

Designed by a veteran Special Education and ELA teacher.

STEP BY COLOR-CODED STEP TO PARAGRAPH WRITING: Teacher-designed scaffolding resources to make paragraph writing instruction easy on you and enjoyable for your elementary students. Explore the genres of expository, narrative, and opinion writing with this 300-page bundle of engaging, easy-to-follow, editable resources designed by a veteran educator.  

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If you're teaching your students how to write a paragraph, you're in the right place.

• Save yourself COUNTLESS hours of planning time
• Download 300+ printable pages of writing resources to teach paragraph structure in the context of narrative, expository, and opinion writing.
• Link to editable teacher and student Google Docs
• Scaffold the writing process with color-coded exemplars and structure guides
• What's Inside This 300-Page Bundle of Goodness?
  

  ✔ 300 + pages of printable color-coded and non-color coded writing resources
  to support emerging writers

  ✔ Links embedded within PDF to editable teacher and student Google Docs

  ✔ 90 Engaging Paragraph Prompts: 30 Narrative, 30 Opinion, 30

  Expository / Informational

  ✔ Each prompt includes a page for brainstorming, a reminder checklist, a page
  for the rough draft, and a page for a final draft

  ✔ 20 Exemplar Paragraphs

  ✔ Handout describing the difference between personal narrative, opinion, and

  expository writing

  ✔ Oral Peer Review Guide

  ✔ Written Peer Review Rubric

  ✔ Self-Editing Checklist

  ✔ Transition Words and Phrases page

  ✔ Paragraph of the Week Teacher Rubric

  ✔"What the Heck is a Clause?" handout that explains dependent vs. independent clauses + practice worksheet and teacher key

  ✔ "About Your Paragraph" page that describes the parts of a paragraph including introduction, supporting paragraphs, and conclusion, and explains the importance of transitions and the use of figurative language + sample paragraph

  ✔ Color-coded paragraph structure guides

  ✔ Link to free resources and mini-lessons to teach figurative language: includes definitions and examples of simile, metaphor, and personification + two worksheets: one ten question handout wherein students practice identifying similes, metaphors, and personification and one ten question handout wherein students practice using similes, metaphors, and personification

  No color printer? No worries! In addition to printable resources that include color-coded highlighting to emphasize each part of a paragraph, duplicates are provided that have no color, so you can use colored pencils or highlighters on your own according to your own color-coded teaching strategy.