Paragraph Writing [Paperback]

Evan-Moor Educational Publisher (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up

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.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Evan-Moor; 2 edition (April 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557996083
• ISBN-13: 978-1557996084
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Way to Teach the Basics of Writing, November 30, 2006

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toothius (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paragraph Writing (Paperback)

I bought this book to help my students stay focused on one subject at a time. I always have students who can write pages of run-on sentences, but can't write a paragraph. This book provides a nice way to learn about topic sentences and supporting details. It also has a lot of writing forms that give students hints about what to write (e.g., describe how the food tastes). This book has given my class a common language that's helped writing across the curricula. I do wish that it provided more lines for each writing form, but it's easy enough to give them extra paper. [...]

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gret for unfocused students, September 22, 2010

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WeeBeaks (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paragraph Writing (Paperback)

I am homeschooling my 3rd grader, who has ADHD. I have found that this book is perfect for him in that it breaks paragraph writing into simple, clearly illustrated steps. For example, the first pages describe an overall paragraph, topic and supporting sentences. Then, there are several example paragraphs to work through with the student finding the topic sentence. From there, he learns to write topic sentences, and so forth. Even a highly distractable student is able to complete the simple short lessons, with good comprehension.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Paragraph Writing Fun, March 16, 2007

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L. Freeman "home school mom" (Christiana, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paragraph Writing (Paperback)

I love this book. It is a simple, easy-to-follow workbook for both teacher and student. It simplifies ways to write well-structured, interesting paragraphs about any topic. Good, solid instruction. Evan-Moore has done it again!