I’ve noticed something interesting about my favorite book authors, such as Roald Dahl. They not only write narrative books, and narrative chapters; they write narrative paragraphs. Book paragraphs, ...

I’ve come to praise the paragraph, not to bury it. Such appreciation was not always my thing. The early instruction I received made construction of a paragraph seem so mechanical, so formulaic, so ...

Sixth-graders at Hellenic American Academy in Lowell spent a lot of time working on their personal narrative paragraphs. Front row, from left, Joshua Bouzerdan, Nicholas Gannon and Kleanthi Litopoulos ...