Homeschool Writing and Then Some
Ever wish you had someone who could hold your hand through this homeschool journey and help you know what’s important and what might trip you up? That’s what this podcast aims to do, especially as it pertains to preparing middle/high school kids to be successful writers. Because teaching teens to write can be tricky. What exactly are you supposed to teach? And how are you supposed to teach it? What if your child hates to write? What if you hate to write!? These are some of the challenges we’ll explore each week. If you’re looking for guidance as well as a little bit of encouragement and a lot of inspiration, you’ve come to the right place.
Homeschool Writing and Then Some
Ep #19 Writing the Body Paragraphs
Body paragraphs aren’t as flashy as introductions or conclusions, but they make up about eighty percent of any essay.
Eighty percent!
That’s a huge percentage, which means that we had better pay attention to them if we want our arguments to be strong and convincing.
So that’s what this episode is about: dissecting a body paragraph to see how it works and then using that knowledge to develop strong paragraphs of our own.
In this episode, I discuss
- the four essential components of a body paragraph
- the differences between coherence and cohesion and why your essay must have both
- how many body paragraphs an essay should have (and how long they need to be)
- three different ways to embed research smoothly into your writing
- eight mistakes students make in writing body paragraphs (and how to fix them)
- strategies for teaching students to write strong body paragraphs
If you have wondered how to help your students develop their ideas into strong paragraphs, then this episode is exactly what you’ve been looking for. All you have to do is click play.