Power Writing: From Paragraph to Essay

How often do your students say “I don’t know what to write” or “How long does it have to be?” Are you frustrated with the lack of written output from your students? And even if they write something, often it is incoherent and off-topic with many run-on sentences. It is painful, unproductive and frustrating.

The Power Writing process is here to help! You will learn the process in eight-easy steps so your students can write with consistency and confidence. From there you can teach them to use that structure to write a five-paragraph essay. The best part is that the eight steps are easy to replicate no matter what subject you teach and no matter if you’re teaching kindergarten or eighth grade.

Power Writing: From Paragraph to Essay answers the questions:

• How do I teach students to think of ideas related to a topic?
• Why is writing a group effort?
• What role does Artificial Intelligence (AI) have in the writing process?
• How do students become independent writers?
• What is the most important step in the writing process?
• What do I do to help students with special education needs that don’t produce written work?
• What are the simple, eight steps to teach students as young as four to write a paragraph?
• How do the samples in the book help me teach and evaluate my students’ work?
• What can I do to help students write on-topic, using a variety of sentences and self-assess their written output?
• How do I use Power Writing to teach students to write an essay?

And much more!

Power Writing provides you with the easy, eight-step process, K-8 student samples, rubrics, and templates ready-to-use in your classroom. It has been successfully used by hundreds of teachers and thousands of students. Take the pain out of teaching K-8 students how to write consistently and leave them with a skill that they will use for the rest of their lives.

An award winning teacher with over 25-years experience in various roles, including classroom teacher, special education teacher, consultant, and vice-principal, Nicole van Woudenberg continues to successfully use the Power Writing process with students of all ages, including those with special education learning needs and even with adults who are seeking to enhance their literacy skills. Power Writing will reduce your frustration teaching students the paragraph writing process and help them become independent, confident writers.