Supporting students with paragraph writing
Once students have mastered basic sentence-level strategies, it’s a great time to turn your attention firmly towards paragraph writing.
The Writing Revolution, an invaluable resource for teachers of all kinds, is not only a tool for developing the command of the sentence. It is a framework for understanding and utilising the paragraph to organise thinking and writing.
In my recent talk for the Victorian DET, I explored some of the key methods for tackling paragraph writing with students. I covered the following main ideas in the talk:
Breaking paragraphs into manageable chunks
Planning and outlining paragraphs
Links between writing paragraphs and knowledge
Revising and editing
I hope this Professional Learning opportunity is of use to teachers of both primary and secondary students.
Watch my whole presentation here↓
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ABOUT me
Dr Nathaniel Swain
I am a Teacher, Instructional Coach, Researcher and Writer. I am passionate about language, literacy and learning, and effective and engaging teaching for all students.
I teach a class of first year foundation students, in a space affectionately known as Dr Swain’s Cognitorium. I also work as Science of Learning Specialist in my school.