Single Paragraph Outline- 1st Grade (Ms. Guillory) Short Version

Ms. Guillory’s 1st grade class completes an SPO around their class pet Rosie. (Short-version video)

Ms. Guillory’s 1st grade class completes an SPO around their class pet Rosie. (Long-version video)

Ms. Jurgensen teaches her sixth-graders how to generate topic sentences using details about the lives of Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Ms. LoCasto teaches her ninth-graders how to generate details for a Single Paragraph Outline (SPO) about Galileo and his contributions.

Mrs. McDermott shows her fourth-grade students how to use their research notes to build a single paragraph outline (SPO) about NYC and the Adirondacks.

Watch an overview of the new customizable templates, which can easily be customized to fit your content and set your students up for success.

This webinar answers the question: How do I teach my students to develop the SPO independently? We will identify the discrete skills required to complete an SPO, then discuss how the SPO scaffolds can be used to teach those skills. We also talk about the importance of using note-taking in the pre-writing planning process.

This webinar provides TWR activities and tips for how to teach your students to use transitional words and phrases. We will show ways transitions can be practiced at the sentence and paragraph levels, and reference posters you can hang in your classroom and share with students.