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Podcast: Stellar Teacher Podcast: A Podcast for Upper Elementary Teachers
Episode: 259. From Sentences to Essays: The Writing Sequence That Works
Description: In this final episode of our summer writing series, I’m unpacking one of the biggest challenges upper elementary teachers face: helping students write multi-paragraph essays. If your state test expects students to write an essay by the end of the year, the pressure to start early is real—but I’m here to tell you why that might actually hold your students back. Instead of jumping straight into essays, we’ll talk about how building a strong foundation in sentence and paragraph writing can lead to much greater success down the road.I’ll share why starting t...