Love it or hate, the five-paragraph essay is perhaps the most frequently taught form of writing in classrooms of yesterday and today. But have you ever actually seen five-paragraph essays outside of school walls?

Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay provides numerous strategies that stimulate student thinking and unique insights. The book encourages lively, personal writing, including close reading; collaboration that supports writing as exploration; a focus on students' writing process as foundational to content development and structure; and the use of model texts to write in the form of the literature students are reading and analyzing.