Last week my second graders crossed the Rubicon of their writing careers.  It was a point of no return. They surged across the murky waters of This and That straight into the Land of PARAGRAPHS.  Not one but two.  ParagraphS, with a capital S at the end. No more struggling primarily with THE WORD or THE SENTENCE.  They were now in the realm of multiple thoughts populated with details, often hostile.  They were learning to tame the details to the order of the governing topic sentence

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