What is an introduction paragraph?

The first paragraph of your essay that introduces the main topic.

The second paragraph of your essay that introduces the main topic.

The fifth paragraph of your essay that introduces the main topic.

The third paragraph of your essay that introduces the main topic.

Select the best topic sentence for the paragraph. You run up and down the court. You have to be able to chase down the ball. Sometimes you play for five or six minutes straight without a time out.

Basketball is an athletic sport.

I played basketball last Thanksgiving.

Select the best topic sentence for the paragraph. When you bake cookies, you first have to make sure you have all the ingredients. Then you have to mix them together. Finally, you have to put them in the oven.

There are a few steps you must follow when making cookies.

Baking cookies is really easy to do.

My grandma has the best cookies recipe.

Cookies are easier to make than cake.

A group of sentences that are all related to one main topic.

A set of words that is complete in itself, containing a subject, verb and object.

A unit of grammatical organization which traditionally consists of a subject and predicate.

Which is the topic sentence? I hate cleaning! I have to do it every week and it's so boring. I have to clean the bathroom, wash the floors and hoover everywhere. I wish we could just pay a cleaner to do it instead.

I have to do it every week and it's so boring.

have to clean the bathroom, wash the floors and hoover everywhere.

I wish we could just pay a cleaner to do it instead.

What is the main point of this paragraph? I will be looking after my neighbours' dog this week. They have gone abroad on holiday and cannot take it with them. I will feed him and take him for walks every day. I'm really looking forward to it.

Looking after a neighbour's dog.

Getting on with your neighbour.

The following can help a paragraph flow and become more high level

properly used transition words and phrases

improperly used transition words and phrases

inventive and informal spelling

Paragraph Structure

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In writing a paragraph, what is the first sentence called.

Sequence sentence

Capital sentence

Topic sentence

Concluding sentence

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What are supporting sentences in a paragraph?

true and false sentences

sentences about the conclusion

short sentences

details about the topic sentences

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the last sentence in a paragraph called?

topic sentence

supporting sentence

concluding sentence

opinion sentence

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the concluding sentence?

tells the main idea

repeats the main idea using different words.

tells a joke

tells the action of the paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Transition words like first, next, and lastly are used to organize the details in the middle of the paragraph.

True

False

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In writing paragraphs, you do NOT need to use complete sentences. Subject +verb.

true

false

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

'And' is a good word to start sentences in a paragraph.

true

false

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

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Paragraph Structure

In writing a paragraph, what is the first sentence called.

What are supporting sentences in a paragraph?

What is the last sentence in a paragraph called?

What is the concluding sentence?

Transition words like first, next, and lastly are used to organize the details in the middle of the paragraph.

In writing paragraphs, you do NOT need to use complete sentences. Subject +verb.

'And' is a good word to start sentences in a paragraph.

What is an introduction paragraph?

Select the best topic sentence for the paragraph.You run up and down the court. You have to be able to chase down the ball. Sometimes you play for five or six minutes straight without a time out.

Select the best topic sentence for the paragraph.When you bake cookies, you first have to make sure you have all the ingredients. Then you have to mix them together. Finally, you have to put them in the oven.

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Select the best topic sentence for the paragraph.
You run up and down the court. You have to be able to chase down the ball. Sometimes you play for five or six minutes straight without a time out.

Select the best topic sentence for the paragraph.
When you bake cookies, you first have to make sure you have all the ingredients. Then you have to mix them together. Finally, you have to put them in the oven.