The materials in Paragraph Writing are meant to be used for modeling and practicing the basic skills of paragraph writing. Teaching ideas, student reproducibles, and writing forms cover these topics: • identifying parts of a paragraph: main idea/topic sentence, supporting details • writing various types of paragraphs: descriptive, narrative, directions, compare & contrast • planning paragraphs using a web and an outline 21 different writing forms are provided. The writing center includes ready-to-use materials such as: • sentences to sequence to make paragraphs • picture cards to write about • topic sentence paragraph starters Some topics include: • Lunch Time • Let's Eat • What a Noise! • Unusual Places • I'm So Excited • My Best Friend • The First and Sixteenth Presidents • How to Fix a Sandwich • Bats and Birds • Party Time • Spiders in the Bedroom • Planet X • Monkey Snack • and many more