Day: February 5, 2020

Moving Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay: Expand the Possibilities of the Genres You Teach
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Moving Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay: Expand the Possibilities of the Genres You Teach

Stacey Shubitz33 Comments

Are students constrained when they write five-paragraph essays? If we change our working definition of essay writing, then we can teach beyond the five-paragraph essays we often see in schools.