1. Using Scaffolds to Organize Texts
How to make a text work together in interesting, efficient ways is a challenge all writers faceWe try to oversimplify this aspect of writing, teaching students to write everything as a story with a chronological beginning , middle, and end or as an essay with 3-5 paragraphsBut I believe for students to write well a repertoire of structural understandings that go beyond these two basic forms.
-Katie Wood Ray, Wondrous Words

2. Take notice to how Margaret Wise Brown organizes and structures her paragraphs.
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THE IMPORTANT BOOK FORMAT
The important thing about ________________________________________ is
Really great detail #1__________________________________________________________
Really great detail #2 _________________________________________________________
Really great detail #3 _________________________________________________________
But the important thing about _________________________________________ is
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16. Sentence Starters
Anotherinteresting fact is .
I also learned that ..
Something that may
surprise you is .