1. Four Square Writing
First Grade

2. Benefits of Four Square
Provides a framework for creative and cohesive writing
Paragraphs are created to organize content
Serves as a guide for several different styles of writing
A visual and kinesthetic aid to focus writing, provide detail and to enhance word choice
Easily integrated through each of the subjects
Can be modified to meet the needs of any writer

3. The topic sentence
belongs here!

4. Topic Sentence Supporting Reasons/Examples Closing Statement Or
Feeling Sentence

5. I love Paxtonia! People Learn a lot Fun Closing Statement or
Feeling Sentence
(Added Last)

6. Topic Sentence One reason First For example One example To begin with
To start with
Second
Third
Another reason
Another example
Also
As well as
Too
In addition
Additionally
Topic Sentence
Last
Finally
In conclusion
In summary
In short
So you can see
As one can see
To summarize
Hence

7. I love Paxtonia! One reason People Also Learn a lot Another reason Fun
So you can see
Closing Statement or
Feeling Sentence
(Added Last)

8. I love Paxtonia! To start with People Also Learn new things
To start with, I love Paxtonia because I like my teacher and friends at school.
Also
Learn new things
Also, In room 8 I learn many new things!
I love Paxtonia!
Another reason
Fun
Another reason I love Paxtonia is because we have a lot of fun assemblies.
So you can see, I love Paxtonia because there are a lot of nice people, I learn a lot, and we have fun!

9. Paxtonia
I love Paxtonia! To start with, I like my teachers and friends at school. Also, in room 8 I learn many new things. Another reason I love Paxtonia is because we have a lot of fun assemblies. So you can see, I love Paxtonia because there are a lot of nice people, I learn new things, and we have fun!

10. Thank you!