A lesson plan in which students read a text and write main ideas and supporting details in boxes on a graphic organizer. Materials are included. [PDF]

This instructional activity is a final step towards supporting students to practice writing an informative/explanatory paragraph conveying complex ideas and presenting information clearly and accurately. Second-grade students can usually...

This site from the University of Ottawa provides a wonderfully designed website that not only gives you exhaustive information on paragraph writing. Students will engage in starting with outlines, writing topic sentences, dividing their...

This lesson goes over common issues in body paragraphs.

Lesson in which learners engage in an entire-group revising process, using a story which has already been written by the group. An excellent follow-up instructional activity to the "prewriting and drafting" instructional activity.