{"id":5888,"date":"2017-08-07T11:38:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T15:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/?p=5888"},"modified":"2018-01-30T11:13:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T16:13:37","slug":"paragraph-breaks-train-analogy-appositives-video-lesson-free-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/paragraph-breaks-train-analogy-appositives-video-lesson-free-download\/","title":{"rendered":"Paragraph Breaks With Train Analogy and Appositives (Live Video Lesson and Free Download!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The only thing more common in student writing than a run-on sentence is probably the run-on paragraph. Yep…run and run and run and run. And it isn\u2019t the sweet student\u2019s fault! (I have spent twenty years trying to help amazing kids not to be stressed about grammar\u2014I would never blame them! \ud83d\ude42 ) Paragraph breaking is often not taught well. (I know I wasn\u2019t taught it\u2014I can remember eye-ball measuring my text to see when I should start a new paragraph when I was in school!) This is why we emphasize deciding on what each paragraph will contain ahead of time (and why when kids in our classes do not write their Topic of Paragraph on the outlining space provided for that, they get docked one LETTER grade per missing paragraph topic line; it\u2019s that important!).<\/p>\n

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This week\u2019s teaching video shows me teaching one of the paragraph break methods I use in my books and classes\u2014The Paragraph Train Analogy. Watch and see if it doesn\u2019t make way more sense to you afterward!<\/p>\n

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This video also contains an appositive lesson. These are Facebook live videos (friend me on FB<\/a> or Like Character Ink FB<\/a> page), so no screen sharing, but I am providing the lessons as free downloads!<\/p>\n

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