When you teach your students how to write paragraphs, what exactly are you teaching them? In short, paragraph instruction involves three basic paragraph concepts: 1) Unity, 2) Coherence, and 3) Emphasis. These three concepts are the three traits of paragraphs. All of...
Teaching Kids Multi-Paragraph Writing: Five Problem Areas
When you teach multi-paragraph writing effectively, your students begin to write in an organized and natural multi-paragraph form in all of their daily writing across the curriculum. Furthermore, when it’s time for a writing assessment, your students easily address...

How to Teach the Real Writing Process
The modern models on teaching writing (e.g., Six Traits, Writer’s Workshop, rubrics and checklists, Reading-Writing Connection, Writing Across the Curriculum, etc.) encourage teachers to take charge and take ownership of teaching writing. They promote this because...
What Should My Beginning Multi-Paragraph Writers Write About?
What your students write about is one of the most important decisions you make in teaching writing. To a large degree, it defines (1) what you teach about writing, and (2) how you teach writing. Put simply, we can’t leave what our students write about to chance. By...
Benefits of the Timed Writing System in Elementary and Middle School
The Timed Writing System: Apples-to-Apples Comparisons and Evaluation I strongly urge teachers to use the Timed Writing System. You are going to get concrete results with Pattern Based Writing: Quick & Easy Essay, you are going to be able to build on those...
Teaching Report Writing is Easy! Fifteen Steps to Fantastic Research Reports!
Research-based report writing requires that students organize information and ideas. That’s a critical component of what Pattern Based Writing: Quick and Easy Essay teaches! After using Pattern Based Writing: Quick and Easy Essay, your students will easily be ready...
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