SALTA 4th grade

Step 4: 4 Square + 3E+ T: Adding Transitional words to provide transition between thoughts- By now you are developing your thesis statement (box 1) into three reasons, details or facts and supporting evidence and examples (boxes 2, 3, and 4). Transition words are now needed to provide smooth transitions and reading between what will eventually become paragraph(s). Step 5: 4 Square + 3E+ T + P: Incorporating Precise language into writing- This step helps you develop personal writing style by using carefully chosen precise words to provide sensory details and imagery for the reader. Your goal is to show the reader, not to just tell the reader. You can list several words under each supporting idea in the organizer and later decide which ones to use. Addition of precise language furthers elaboration and enhances maturity of writing. Building these descriptions prepares the writer for longer and more complex compositions.

Step 6: Add a concluding statement- write a concluding sentence in Box #5. The concluding ties all the parts together, reminds the reader of the topic and purpose for the paragraph and reflects the topic sentence.

Step 7: Develop your ideas in sentences/paragraph(s) on a separate sheet of paper. (Your sentences/paragraph(s) ideas are now taken off the organizer and put into sentences/paragraph(s) form on a separate sheet of paper, which will give you plenty of room to add to your sentences/paragraph(s).) Begin writing sentences/paragraph(s) using what you wrote in the Four Square (one sentences/paragraph(s) for each box).

Now all that is left is to take your paragraphs and develop the 5-paragraph essay; even your introduction and conclusion ideas are taken from your original four-square organizer.