{"id":2121,"date":"2020-01-19T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2020-01-17T17:55:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T17:55:25","slug":"writing-a-5-paragraph-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2020\/01\/19\/writing-a-5-paragraph-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing a 5 Paragraph Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paddyeger.com\/images\/studentwriting.png\" width=\"239\" height=\"239\" \/>The five paragraph essay is a great way for middle school and high school students to learn the structure of a meaning-filled essay. Here&#8217;s the outline a student should follow:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paragraph ONE: Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Main theme of the essay<\/li>\n<li>Point one stated<\/li>\n<li>Point two stated<\/li>\n<li>Point three stated<\/li>\n<li>Transition sentence to paragraph #2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Paragraph TWO: Point one explained using supporting evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Supporting evidence #1<\/li>\n<li>Supporting evidence #2<\/li>\n<li>Supporting evidence #3<\/li>\n<li>Transition sentence to paragraph #3<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Paragraph THREE: Point two explained using supporting evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Supporting evidence #1<\/li>\n<li>Supporting evidence #2<\/li>\n<li>Supporting evidence #3<\/li>\n<li>Transition sentence to paragraph #4<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Paragraph FOUR: Point three explained using supporting evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Supporting evidence #1<\/li>\n<li>Supporting evidence #2<\/li>\n<li>Supporting evidence #3<\/li>\n<li>Transition sentence to paragraph #5<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Paragraph FIVE: Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Why your ideas about the subject are correct.<\/li>\n<li>What you proved in your evidence in paragraphs #2,3 and 4.<\/li>\n<li>Summarize you conclusion. Tie it back to your introduction in Paragraph #1<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (based on an article written by blogger for Layers of Learning)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,22,302],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent-skills","category-language-arts","category-writing-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}