CCC Paragraphs

What is the order of a typical paragraph?

• 1. Supporting details

  2. Topic sentence

  3. Supporting details

• 1. Topic sentence

  2. Supporting details

  3. Concluding paragraph

• 1. Concluding sentence

  2. Supporting details

  3. Topic sentence

• 1. Topic sentence

  2. Concluding sentence

  3. Supporting details

What is a good/reasonable concluding sentence for this paragraph?

• Hosea should try another sport.

• Hopefully, Hosea could grow much taller.

• Hosea could be a star player in any basketball team.

• Hosea might not make a basketball team.

Which is a good/reasonable topic sentence for this paragraph:

• Rio enjoys spicy food.

• Rio likes to help garden with her mom.

• Rio grows hot peppers in her garden.

• Rio likes Thai food.

Before writing the first word of your paragraph, you should...

• indent one inch from the left margin

• indent one millimeter from the left margin

• indent one meter from the margin

• indent one inch from the right margin

The boss of every paragraph (no matter which one) is...

• the transitional words and phrases

• the chunking

• the topic sentence

• the concluding sentence

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

• True

• False

A _____ expresses the main idea of the paragraph.

• Topic sentence

• controlling idea

• supporting sentences

• examples

Usually, a good paragraph contains ____ sentences

• 4-5

• 5-7

• 8-10

• 3

Topic sentence is usually the __________ sentence.

• Second

• Third

• First

After the topic sentence the next sentences are the _______ of the topic.

• details

• nouns

• verbs

• answers