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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]There are always parents on here that claim the five paragraph essay has gone away and it’s one of the reasons FCPS and our children’s education is declining. The five paragraph essay has not gone away. It is still the expected/desired outcome for multiple language arts units in 4-6th grade. If your students are not writing a five paragraph essay, there are probably three reasons for that.

1) their individual ELL or SPED level is not at a place where they can manage a five paragraph essay.
2) the teacher did not do it because they ran out of time in the unit.
3) the student complained and procrastinated needlessly and never got beyond paragraph two or three.[/quote]

My FCPS AAP student was not assigned a five paragraph essay in 4-6th grade (and in fact was not given any formal writing instruction--or punctuation, or grammar, or spelling instruction--until we moved them out of FCPS for 7th grade).  This was a well regarded albeit overcrowded LIV AAP center.  The emphasis was math, math, math.[/quote]

I had to ask my rising 5th grade (general Ed) kid if they wrote the elusive five paragraph paper. Yes, he did. We found them first on Google Drive and then the hard copies that came home.

One was a persuasive essay (he wrote about the importance of being on an team) and the other essay was focused on reasons so many colonists died during the Jamestown Settlement. [/quote]

Same poster. We found a third essay. Looks to be a persuasive review on Panera. [/quote]

DP, 3rd grade teacher
Our students take many pieces of writing through the writing process. I don’t know if we would consider them “essays”, but their “All About…”, persuasive review and content area research writings are all developed using paragraphs. [/quote]

Essays have a specific format. [b]If you’re teach an essay[/b], you’d know it. [/quote]

Essays do not have a specific format.  You might consider stepping back from critiquing the teacher on their writing instruction.

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