When you’re teaching tiny humans (i.e. my year 2 class), how many sentences do you expect a paragraph to have? We’re doing paragraphs later this week, and I’m not quite sure how to frame it. I’m just introducing the concept to them, because the syllabus says they should be familiar with the idea, and I’m also sick of getting a page and a half of writing that is one block of text. We’ll being doing persuasive writing later in the term, and I’ll introduce them to OREO paragraphs then, but for now, they just need an understand of what a paragraph is and when we start a new one.
I like the idea of using a hamburger diagram, but they all seem to work on the principle that you need at least 3 fillings on a hamburger, and that seems a bit rough for 7 and 8 year olds. At the very least, I think they should be doing a topic sentence and one other sentence, but adding a concluding sentence to that seems like a bit of overkill, and expecting a topic sentence, two content sentences and a concluding sentence seems like it’s a bit unreasonable.
Thoughts? Suggestions? No real ideas, but sympathy for my confusion?
