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The Ultimate Guide to the 5-Paragraph Essay

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B.A., History, Armstrong State University

A five-paragraph essay is a prose composition that follows a prescribed format of an introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph, and is typically taught during primary English education and applied on standardized testing throughout schooling.

Learning to write a high-quality five-paragraph essay is an essential skill for students in early English classes as it allows them to express certain ideas, claims, or concepts in an organized manner, complete with evidence that supports each of these notions. Later, though, students may decide to stray from the standard five-paragraph format and venture into writing an exploratory essay instead.

Still, teaching students to organize essays into the five-paragraph format is an easy way to introduce them to writing literary criticism, which will be tested time and again throughout their primary, secondary, and further education.

Writing a Good Introduction

The introduction is the first paragraph in your essay, and it should accomplish a few specific goals: capture the reader's interest, introduce the topic, and make a claim or express an opinion in a thesis statement.

It's a good idea to start your essay with a hook (fascinating statement) to pique the reader's interest, though this can also be accomplished by using descriptive words, an anecdote, an intriguing question, or an interesting fact. Students can practice with creative writing prompts to get some ideas for interesting ways to start an essay.

The next few sentences should explain your first statement, and prepare the reader for your thesis statement, which is typically the last sentence in the introduction. Your thesis sentence should provide your specific assertion and convey a clear point of view, which is typically divided into three distinct arguments that support this assertation, which will each serve as central themes for the body paragraphs.

Writing Body Paragraphs

The body of the essay will include three body paragraphs in a five-paragraph essay format, each limited to one main idea that supports your thesis.

To correctly write each of these three body paragraphs, you should state your supporting idea, your topic sentence, then back it up with two or three sentences of evidence. Use examples that validate the claim before concluding the paragraph and using transition words to lead to the paragraph that follows — meaning that all of your body paragraphs should follow the pattern of "statement, supporting ideas, transition statement."

Words to use as you transition from one paragraph to another include: moreover, in fact, on the whole, furthermore, as a result, simply put, for this reason, similarly, likewise, it follows that, naturally, by comparison, surely, and yet.

Writing a Conclusion

The final paragraph will summarize your main points and re-assert your main claim (from your thesis sentence). It should point out your main points, but should not repeat specific examples, and should, as always, leave a lasting impression on the reader.

The first sentence of the conclusion, therefore, should be used to restate the supporting claims argued in the body paragraphs as they relate to the thesis statement, then the next few sentences should be used to explain how the essay's main points can lead outward, perhaps to further thought on the topic. Ending the conclusion with a question, anecdote, or final pondering is a great way to leave a lasting impact.

Once you complete the first draft of your essay, it's a good idea to re-visit the thesis statement in your first paragraph. Read your essay to see if it flows well, and you might find that the supporting paragraphs are strong, but they don't address the exact focus of your thesis. Simply re-write your thesis sentence to fit your body and summary more exactly, and adjust the conclusion to wrap it all up nicely.

Practice Writing a Five-Paragraph Essay

Students can use the following steps to write a standard essay on any given topic. First, choose a topic, or ask your students to choose their topic, then allow them to form a basic five-paragraph by following these steps:

Decide on your basic thesis , your idea of a topic to discuss.
Decide on three pieces of supporting evidence you will use to prove your thesis.
Write an introductory paragraph, including your thesis and evidence (in order of strength).
Write your first body paragraph, starting with restating your thesis and focusing on your first piece of supporting evidence.
End your first paragraph with a transitional sentence that leads to the next body paragraph.
Write paragraph two of the body focussing on your second piece of evidence. Once again make the connection between your thesis and this piece of evidence.
End your second paragraph with a transitional sentence that leads to paragraph number three.
Repeat step 6 using your third piece of evidence.
Begin your concluding paragraph by restating your thesis. Include the three points you've used to prove your thesis.
End with a punch, a question, an anecdote, or an entertaining thought that will stay with the reader.

Once a student can master these 10 simple steps, writing a basic five-paragraph essay will be a piece of cake, so long as the student does so correctly and includes enough supporting information in each paragraph that all relate to the same centralized main idea, the thesis of the essay.

Limitations of the Five-Paragraph Essay

The five-paragraph essay is merely a starting point for students hoping to express their ideas in academic writing; there are some other forms and styles of writing that students should use to express their vocabulary in the written form.

According to Tory Young's "Studying English Literature: A Practical Guide":

"Although school students in the U.S. are examined on their ability to write a five-paragraph essay , its raison d'être is purportedly to give practice in basic writing skills that will lead to future success in more varied forms. Detractors feel, however, that writing to rule in this way is more likely to discourage imaginative writing and thinking than enable it. . . . The five-paragraph essay is less aware of its audience and sets out only to present information, an account or a kind of story rather than explicitly to persuade the reader."

Students should instead be asked to write other forms, such as journal entries, blog posts, reviews of goods or services, multi-paragraph research papers, and freeform expository writing around a central theme. Although five-paragraph essays are the golden rule when writing for standardized tests, experimentation with expression should be encouraged throughout primary schooling to bolster students' abilities to utilize the English language fully.

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These strategies for organizing writing assignments increase students’ independence and confidence and reduce teachers’ grading time.

Although I have always approached writing in a scaffolded “I do, we do, you do” model, I have never before asked students to collaborate with their peers to make their thinking visible. Google Slides enables students to practice writing interactively with writing models, sentence starters, and drag-and-drop review of major vocabulary terms, and above all it encourages organization by curating their ongoing work in one space.

The following six tips have helped increase the confidence that my students have in their writing ability and in turn significantly elevated participation and work completion.

How I Use Google tools to Structure Writing

1. Number the step in each assignment: In one assignment, I ask students to compare theme across two texts. It sounds simple enough, but when I number each step of the scaffolded writing process in Google Classroom, communication with my students becomes so much clearer. As we approach the final draft of our essay, for example, I say to students, “OK, open numbers 9, 13, and 14 and begin editing!” Long gone are the days when students riffle through crumpled papers to find a graphic organizer. Instead, their writing is organized in small mini-assignments in Google Classroom. Students understand what I am asking and get to work immediately.

Numbering assignments also makes it much easier for students who are absent to communicate clearly what work they need to make up. Here’s an example:

Practice: Writing a Thesis Statement
Main Idea Versus Theme
Practice Comparing Two Texts
Partner Practice: How to Write an Introduction
Outline for Introduction Paragraph
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Partner Practice: Writing Your Body Paragraphs
Summary Versus Analysis
Outline for Your Body Paragraphs
Partner Practice: Writing a Conclusion
Final Draft

2. Create notes that allow students to practice skills interactively: Group work doesn’t always come to mind when teachers think of writing, but I use Google Slides to create model paragraphs that students can edit and complete together.

Here’s an example:

First, we examine the basic body paragraph that I have written myself to walk students through. We use two brief texts from CommonLit as the model throughout each part of the writing process, beginning with a model thesis statement that we create together. For their own essay, students select from a myriad of short stories we have read together to devise their own thesis statement.
Color is key. We color-code each part of the body paragraph to be intentional in ensuring that students will incorporate all parts of the body paragraph in their own writing.
When students practice with a partner, they complete a second body paragraph together. We leave sentence frames similar to the model paragraph to provide support and boost confidence. Students keep the model paragraph in view as they create their own second paragraph.
When students move on to comparing their own two texts, we ask them to keep this activity tab open to use as a guide. This significantly boosts independence in their writing and removes the common “I don’t know where to start” response.

3. Make it public: After we practice creating thesis statements and writing their introduction paragraphs, students post them to Google Stream. If students feel insecure about posting, they send their final introduction paragraphs to me, and then I post them anonymously. We talk through each student example as a class, providing constructive feedback. Students get ideas from their peers on how they might structure their writing, word choice, transitions, and other changes they might make.

4. Use short texts to stand as class models throughout the writing process: I use CommonLit to find comparison texts to stand as the class model as we move through each scaffolded step of the writing process. After we read two short stories as a class, we use these texts to write class thesis statements together, to review the difference between analysis and summary, to select intentional quotes that will best support our argument, and so forth.

This allows for repetition and familiarity as we move through each chunked assignment using the same model texts. We try to use different genres of writing samples. For instance, our model focused on the poems “What My Father Said,” by Alan King, and “Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push,” by Walter Dean Myers.

5. Copy, paste, revise, submit: Everything we do in writing a four-paragraph comparison essay is done in chunks. When students arrive at the end of the writing process, they are shocked, stunned, and wowed that their paper is actually completed. We copy and paste from their introduction, body paragraph, and conclusion outlines that they have already revised.

6. Quick feedback in real time and fast grading: I can’t tell you how many more completed essays I receive at the end of this process—a nearly 100 percent submission rate. And this method has significantly, if not completely, eradicated cheating.

By the time we reach the end of the writing process, I have read each student essay on five different occasions. This is all during class time—I have spent zero time at home grading essays. Students receive feedback on each assignment using the comment section in Google Docs. We often read through their feedback together during our conference time. Because each piece of the essay is submitted in small chunks, students receive feedback almost every day on their writing.

When students submit their final essay, I use a rubric on Google Sheets, and I can assess 18 essays in under an hour. The rubric allows for a click-of-a-button response as opposed to leaving detailed notes that students might become overwhelmed by or not read at all. The system of giving students feedback while they are writing is so much more useful than students’ receiving feedback that they do nothing with after the grade.

Five Paragraph Essay

The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.

~Raymond Chandler

Introduction

Attention Grabber (Hook)

General Background

Summarize your points

Strong Openings

Simon Glass was easy to hate. I never knew exactly why, there was too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him a different reason, but we didn’t realize it until the day we killed him.

~Opening paragraph from Shattering Glass by Gail Giles

Why worry about openings?

Remember, it’s the appetizer course.
You want your reader to be engaged.
If the reader is not interested, they won’t want to hear what you have to say.

Technique Number One

Descriptions of personal experience or use of anecdote or narrative
Make sure you allow the reader to identify with you and your story
You may refer to the story throughout the essay to provide examples
Keep them relatively short
As I walked down the street, a guy with pink hair and three nose rings asked me if I knew about the alien convention downtown…

Technique Number Two

Interesting fact, statistics, or quotation
They intrigue the reader as well as introduce your topic
The person next to you has twenty-three forms of bacteria on his or her skin.
Children that watch three or more hours of television a day are four times as likely to become obese, diabetic, or suffer a heart attack as an adult.

Technique Number Three

Open with a striking assertion
The sentence is so “out-there” that the reader has to finish the essay so that he or she can figure out what the writer is talking about
John Milton, Beethoven, and Socrates were all failures.
I have decided that I do not really have to pay attention in class.

Technique Number Four

A provocative question
Make sure the question is thought-provoking
Make sure you answer the question effectively
Do not run a string of unanswerable questions together (the reader will expect you to answer all of them)
When writing questions, watch your point of view – do not switch to 2 nd person.

Technique Number Five

Use a rhetorical or literary device
Figures of speech (simile, metaphor)
If I had to give my life a title, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest comes to mind.

A few things to consider about your thesis…

The summary may be before your thesis or you may include it within your thesis.
Topic + impression/attitude = thesis
This is the controlling idea to which everything else in the essay should support.
Five hundred years ago, talented writers were encouraged to imitate the works of others – now such imitation invites public disgrace, professional ostracism, and lawsuits.

Supporting your thesis:�The Body Paragraphs

The main course!
Use examples
Make sure your examples are specific
Make certain that you are explaining how your examples support your thesis
Show, don’t tell!
Only use information/examples that support your thesis
Use topic sentences to introduce each topic of the paragraphs
Use transitions in your topic sentences to link your paragraphs and examples together
Use clinchers to wrap up each paragraph (summarize) – do not transition in the clinchers!

Thoughtful Closings

This is the fifth and final paragraph, therefore the most important!
It’s the dessert portion of the essay
Do not introduce new information – stay focused

Restated thesis

(different words,

but the same

impression)

Summarize main points

General statement that reflects insight

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General Essay Writing-5 Paragraph Essay

These are materials that I used to help my students write five paragraph essays. I know not everyone is obsessed with the five paragraph essay, but I think it's a concrete way to help beginning writers learn how to organize a longer piece of writing. Once they understand how to organize longer pieces, you can move them away from this format.

5-Paragraph Essay Visuals

A Visual Guide to the 5 Paragraph Essay

Outlining/Organization Materials

Simple PowerPoint about Thesis Statements, Intro Paragraphs, Outlining, and Body Paragraphs (needs fixing up)

Example Outline

Correct the Outline

5-Paragraph Essay Graphic Organizer

5-Paragraph Essay Sort : Give the kids this handout. Have them cut up the pieces and then put the pieces in order.

Introductory Paragraph Materials

"Why You Need an Intro" PowerPoint

How to Write an Intro (Needs revising-did not transfer to Google Slides well)

Body Paragraph Materials

Cohesion PowerPoint

Elaboration Practice Handout

Conclusion Paragraph Materials

How to Write a Conclusion PowerPoint

Essay Prompts

Invention prompt

Writing Prompt 1

Writing Prompts 2

Writing Prompts 3 (Narrative & Persuasion)

Writing Prompts 4 (Narrative & Persuasion)

Persuasive Essay Practice Prompts

Writing Quizzes

Multiple Choice Editing & Revision Quiz

If you have any five paragraph essay resources that you want to share with others, please leave them in the comments section below.

5 Paragraph Essay

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5 - Paragraph Essay Lesson with PowerPoint , Graphic Organizers, and Anchor Charts

Five Paragraph Essay PowerPoint

Five Paragraph Essay Instructional Resource - Made for Google Slides

How to Write a 5 - Paragraph Essay : PowerPoint Presentation

Basic Five Paragraph Expository Essay : Color-Coded PowerPoint

5 - Paragraph Essay Guided Notes Power Point Presentation

Magical 5 Paragraph Essay Slides | Digital Resources

How To Write A 5 Paragraph Persuasive Essay with an Easy to use PowerPoint

Flowers for Algernon Five Paragraph Essay Slides , Directions, and Scaffolds