Paragraph Railway

What your child will figure out

• Select sentences because they support a paragraph's main idea, not merely because they are grammatical.
• Use transitions as semantic joints that express cause, contrast, example, or sequence.
• Build and defend more than one coherent sentence order when each order satisfies the same meaning constraints.
• Reframe the same facts with a topic and conclusion suited to a new audience and purpose.

The levels

1. Carriage yard

   Freely couple sentences and predict the main idea a reader will expect.

2. The useful siding

   Build a school-garden paragraph while visibly routing an irrelevant sentence to the siding.

3. Stress the joint

   Repair three sentence joints by matching transition meaning to cause, contrast, and example.

4. Two good routes

   Discover that two orders can be coherent when both obey topic, evidence, example, and closing constraints.

5. Change the destination

   Use the same solar-light facts in a child explanation or council recommendation.