Gladly Teaching/The Cooperative Strip Paragraph Follow Up Coaching Guide

Gladly Writing With the Cooperative Strip Paragraph

Help your language learners TALK → THINK → WRITE with confidence.

Teaching writing doesn’t have to feel heavy.
It doesn’t have to start with blank stares, stuck students, or paragraph frames that go nowhere.

Students don’t struggle because they can’t write.
They struggle because they can’t organize their thinking yet.
When the language becomes clear, the writing becomes easy.
And when students can say it, they can write it every single time.

They need structure.
They need language rehearsal.
They need a process that turns ideas into sentences into paragraphs.

They need the Cooperative Strip Paragraph.

Why the Cooperative Strip Paragraph Works

  • It transforms oral language into organized, confident writing

  • It gives students the language before you expect them to write it

  • It aligns with Common Core and supports every writing genre

  • It builds paragraph structure through conversation + movement + meaning

  • It eliminates the “I don’t know how to start” freeze

  • It works for multilingual learners, new writers, and mixed-level classrooms

  • It lets you teach writing with ease, simplicity, and confidence

This is why we use Project GLAD® in the first place
because oral language is the bridge to thinking, reading, and writing.

Imagine This

  • Your students talking through their ideas before they ever pick up a pencil.

  • Students confidently building paragraphs in narrative, explanatory, opinion, and content areas.

  • Writers who understand structure because they experienced it through language not worksheets.

  • A writing block where you aren’t dragging words out of them…
    They already have them.

Imagine writing lessons that feel joyful, predictable, and effective.
This is the strategy that finally makes that possible through authentic practice.

What You Get Inside the Gladly Writing Toolkit

Jumpstart Guide so you can implement the Cooperative Strip Paragraph immediately
Downloadable PDF packed with real student-tested examples
Scope + Sequence that removes all guesswork
Project GLAD® Strategy Checklist to align each step with powerful pedagogy
Instructional Video showing the strategy in action
Two Revising + Editing Checklists to scaffold the entire writing process
Real classroom visuals + student samples
✔ A simple, repeatable process to move from anchor charts → oral practice → confident paragraphs

This is not just a strategy.
This is your follow-up coaching guide the support you wish you had after training.
It’s the piece that finally makes writing instruction click.

Perfect For

  • K–5 teachers

  • Multilingual learners + mixed-level classrooms

  • New writers needing structure

  • Teachers craving simple, joyful writing instruction

  • Anyone tired of watching students freeze at the start of a paragraph

Ready to make writing the easiest part of your day
and the strongest part of theirs?

Grab the Cooperative Strip Paragraph Toolkit

  • $30

The Cooperative Strip Paragraph Follow Up Coaching Guide

Created for Project GLAD® trained educators, this follow-up coaching guide helps you dive deeper into the paragraph writing process. Learn how to use your standards to create intentional writing prompts, extend this strategy across two weeks of instruction, and support students with the oral language, structure, and repetition they need for stronger writing.

Marissa, classroom teacher

"The in depth explanations, photos, and video all helpful and really explain how to implement all steps of the cooperative strip paragraph. The training I had was brief and even though I took notes and photos, it wasn't explained as thoroughly as this resource. I feel much better prepared to use sp with my students. This resource ties it altogether.“

R.J. ML Teacher

"I wished my GLAD trainers could come back and do more PD because I was having trouble doing the writing strategies. This guide felt like the trainer was there. I am going to purchase more follow up coaching guides for this reason"

G.G. Classroom Teacher

"This was a game changer for me! I did an online GLAD training two years ago, but this made it come alive for me!”