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✍️ Writing & Research Grades 3–12
Paragraph & Outline Templates
Templates give your ideas a shape. Fill one in, then turn it into sentences in your own voice.
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Hamburger paragraph (grades 3–5)
Top bun: topic sentence.
Fillings: three details, each with an example.
Bottom bun: closing sentence that restates the topic.
PEEL paragraph (grades 6–12)
Point: what this paragraph proves.
Evidence: a quote, fact, or example (cited).
Explain: how the evidence proves the point.
Link: connect back to the thesis or to the next idea.
Outline format
I. Introduction (hook, context, thesis)
II. Body 1: reason 1 → A. evidence, B. explanation
III. Body 2: reason 2 → A. evidence, B. explanation
IV. Body 3 / counterargument and rebuttal
V. Conclusion
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