Four square writing for a biography

The four square writing method is a way for teaching writing to children in school. While primarily used to teach persuasive writing, it has also been used to help teach deconstruction.^[1] The method was developed by Judith S.

Gould ^[2] and Evan Jay Gould.^[3]

It was developed initially for primary school students, but it has also been used in high school classes.

Four square writing for a biography

Method

The method is primarily a visual framework for assisting students with formulating ideas in an organized manner prior to writing an essay.

The concept generally works as follows:

1. A large square is drawn and divided into four smaller squares of equal size.

   An additional rectangle is drawn in the center of the figure overlapping each of the other four squares. A total of five rectangles are thus created.

2. The student writes a complete topic sentence in the center rectangle.
3. Then, the student writes three sentences that develop the thesis of the