Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Exploring How Authors Use Topic Sentences in Expository (Informational) Text

Our findings:
  • Table of Contents- lets you know how the paragraphs are related
  • Bold letters- important words
  • Different lengths of sentences in a paragraph
  • Opinions based on facts
  • More than one paragraph on a page
  • Include true facts
  • Makes the reader feel like they are living in your writing
  • Draw in readers/ audience
  • Pictures help you better visualize the paragraphs
  • Show then tell using pictures/ captions/ references to figures
  • Important facts
  • Long paragraphs can be divided into smaller paragraphs 
  • Sometimes paragraphs look different like written in a comic form
  • Diagrams, pictures, tables, charts, graphs, etc  help show what you're trying to tell in the paragraphs by adding information.
  • Headings can have more than one paragraph on different pages.
  • Topic/Main idea sentence

A paragraph has two jobs.

  1. To tell you what you'll be reading about
  2. Add details that help you tell it
Watch this video to learn more about how topic paragraphs are constructed.

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