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.

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

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.

• Exercise is hard.

• Basketball is an athletic sport.

• I love the Lakers.

• I played basketball last Thanksgiving.

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

• true 

• false

_______ is a group of sentences about one topic. It contains a topic sentence, supporting details and sometimesa concluding sentence.

A paragraph has ________ when all the sentences in a paragraph clearly relate to one another systemically or logically.

_________ is/are the sentence/s in the paragraph where it usually restates the main idea in different words or summarizes the main points of the paragraph.

_________________ is/are used to develop the main idea. In other words, it gives information about the main idea. It can be facts, statistics, details, or examples.

_______ states the main idea of the paragraph. It shows what the whole paragraph is all about.

A good paragraph possesses _____ when all the sentences develop the main idea.