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Hamburger 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 develop...
Set up, Text Evidence, Analyze, Restate (STAR) Strategy
This strategy helps students in upper elementary and middle school craft focused, evidence-based responses by providing a clear structure to organize their thinking, incorporate relevant text evidence, and analyze how that evidence supports their answer.
The SIM Paragraph Writing Strategy (SCRIBE, PENS)
With the Paragraph Writing Strategy, students learn to list ideas related to a topic; plan the point of view and verb tense to be used in the paragraph; plan the sequence in which ideas will be expressed; and write a variety of topic, detail, and clincher sentences.
Hamburger 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 develop...
Set up, Text Evidence, Analyze, Restate (STAR) Strategy
This strategy helps students in upper elementary and middle school craft focused, evidence-based responses by providing a clear structure to organize their thinking, incorporate relevant text evidence, and analyze how that evidence supports their answer.
The SIM Paragraph Writing Strategy (SCRIBE, PENS)
With the Paragraph Writing Strategy, students learn to list ideas related to a topic; plan the point of view and verb tense to be used in the paragraph; plan the sequence in which ideas will be expressed; and write a variety of topic, detail, and clincher sentences.
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Set up, Text Evidence, Analyze, Restate (STAR) Strategy
This strategy helps students in upper elementary and middle school craft focused, evidence-based responses by providing a clear structure to organize their thinking, incorporate relevant text evidence, and analyze how that evidence supports their answer.
The SIM Paragraph Writing Strategy (SCRIBE, PENS)
With the Paragraph Writing Strategy, students learn to list ideas related to a topic; plan the point of view and verb tense to be used in the paragraph; plan the sequence in which ideas will be expressed; and write a variety of topic, detail, and clincher sentences.
Set up, Text Evidence, Analyze, Restate (STAR) Strategy
This strategy helps students in upper elementary and middle school craft focused, evidence-based responses by providing a clear structure to organize their thinking, incorporate relevant text evidence, and analyze how that evidence supports their answer.
The SIM Paragraph Writing Strategy (SCRIBE, PENS)
With the Paragraph Writing Strategy, students learn to list ideas related to a topic; plan the point of view and verb tense to be used in the paragraph; plan the sequence in which ideas will be expressed; and write a variety of topic, detail, and clincher sentences.
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Hamburger Strategy
This strategy offers a concrete, visual metaphor for students in Grades 2-6 to plan and evaluate their paragraph structure by mapping the main idea (top bun), supporting details (fillings), and conclusion (bottom bun).
Topic, Important, Detailed, Ending (TIDE) Strategy
TIDE is a practical strategy for planning and writing informative or expository paragraphs by giving students a clear, repeatable framework for organizing their ideas and making their writing structured and easy to follow.
Topic, Introduce, Quote, Analyze (TIQA) Strategy
TIQA is a straightforward strategy for informational writing and literary analysis that guides students through four key components to build strong, focused, text-based paragraphs: Topic sentence, Introduction of evidence, Quotation, and Analysis.
Hamburger Strategy
This strategy offers a concrete, visual metaphor for students in Grades 2-6 to plan and evaluate their paragraph structure by mapping the main idea (top bun), supporting details (fillings), and conclusion (bottom bun).
Topic, Important, Detailed, Ending (TIDE) Strategy
TIDE is a practical strategy for planning and writing informative or expository paragraphs by giving students a clear, repeatable framework for organizing their ideas and making their writing structured and easy to follow.
Topic, Introduce, Quote, Analyze (TIQA) Strategy
TIQA is a straightforward strategy for informational writing and literary analysis that guides students through four key components to build strong, focused, text-based paragraphs: Topic sentence, Introduction of evidence, Quotation, and Analysis.