Jade Schultz

My writing curriculum is using the "Four Square Model" for organizing paragraph writing. That can be a tall task for a little mind! I created this organizer to help with that process- which can take up to a week for a first grader. On Day 1 we fill in the numbers of the boxes in the small circles (1 in the middle, 2 starting at the top), and add the topic sentence in box number one. On Day 2 we organize our three topics into the blank boxes and draw them in the circles. On Day 3 we write sent