Free hamburger graphic organizer printable that helps kids with paragraph writing

Organizer. Writing paragraphs. Available in pdf and digital form.

Use this Paragraph Graphic Organizer to help write a one-paragraph essay with a topic sentence, three details, and a concluding sentence.

Well, today was the first official day back to school after the longest winter break ever (seriously, 19 days!) with a snow day at the very beginning and then two in a row tacked on at the end. If you are a mid-westerner like myself, you were definitely in the same boat with these frigid wind-chills and mounds of snow. In fact, I had to give my little Honda a pep talk this morning to get through some of those side streets that were still in desperate need of some plowing. "C'mon Hondie, you…

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Writing an introductory paragraph for young writers takes practice. I have found that around 4th grade they get taught about "hooking" their reader in. An easy way for them to do that is to start with a question. So by 5th grade... all of them are starting their papers with questions! Now, there isn't anything extremely wrong about this in middle school, but it can get boring for the reader (aka ME). Sometimes I would like to shout, "There are other options out there people!" This means a…

Did you think teaching students to write would be a snap? I mean, you are a college-educated, certified individual. How hard could it possibly be? Well, it’s a challenge, especially when just starting out. In my classroom,

Hamburger Graphic Organizers, the most succulent of all concept maps. Help students understand writing structure with these hamburger paragraph templates.

A writing template to help children when structuring text types.