Writing a Paragraph

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.

• Baking cookies is really easy to do.

• My grandma has the best cookies recipe.

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

• Cookies are easier to make than cake.

What is a paragraph?

• 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.

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

What should a paragraph look like?

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

• slang words

• improperly used transition words and phrases

• inventive and informal spelling

• properly used transition words and phrases

What is true about the concluding sentence?

• It's the last sentence of a paragraph.

• It can introduce a new idea.

• It restates the main idea of the paragraph and summarizes it.

• You can add an example of what you said here.

• A good connector to start it could be "Finally"

What is the correct order of a paragraph?

• Topic sentence, concrete detail one, evidence, explanation or commentary, concrete detail two, evidence, explanation or commentary, concluding sentence

• Topic sentence, evidence, explanation, supporting point one, supporting point two, evidence, explanation

• Topic sentence, supporting point one, supporting point two, evidence, evidence, explanation, explanation, closing sentence

• supporting point one, evidence, explanation, supporting point two, evidence, explanation

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 hate cleaning! 

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

The first sentence in a paragraph is called...

• Supporting detail

• Topic sentence

• Concluding sentence

• Transition

The sentences that explain the topic sentence are..

• Supporting details

• Burgers and buns

• Topic sentences

• Concluding sentences

The main idea of a paragraph is stated in the..

• Burger bun

• First supporting detail

• Last supporting detail

• Topic sentence