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The Hamburger Paragraph strategy uses a familiar visual metaphor to help students in grades 2–6 plan and draft writing across genres. By organizing topic sentences, supporting details, and conclusions like layers of a hamburger, it simplifies paragraph structure and encourages deeper content development.
Four Square Strategy
The Hamburger Paragraph strategy uses a familiar visual metaphor to help students in grades 2–6 plan and draft writing across genres. By organizing topic sentences, supporting details, and conclusions like layers of a hamburger, it simplifies paragraph structure and encourages deeper content development.
Do What Strategy
The Hamburger Paragraph strategy uses a familiar visual metaphor to help students in grades 2–6 plan and draft writing across genres. By organizing topic sentences, supporting details, and conclusions like layers of a hamburger, it simplifies paragraph structure and encourages deeper content development.
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) Strategy
CER gives students a clear structure for writing persuasive or argumentative explanations by guiding them to make a claim, back it up with evidence, and explain the reasoning that connects the two.
Add, Remove, Move, Substitute (ARMS) Revision Strategy
This is a revision strategy that breaks the process into four concrete actions: Add, Remove, Move, and Substitute. It helps students purposefully improve organization, clarity, and precision in all genres of writing.