© Capital Community College Warm-up Sit down, open your binders to your warm up section Read each...

© Capital Community College

Warm-up• Sit down, open your binders to your warm

up section• Read each sentence and identify the

conjunctions and/or the prepositions in each one.

1. I want a dog but I already have a cat.2. I bought a soda at the movies.3. I’m reading a book since it’s raining today.4. She brought cheese, bread, and salami to

the picnic.5. The boy fell on his back on the sidewalk.


Answers1. I want a dog but I already have a cat.2. I bought a soda at the movies.3. I’m reading a book since it’s raining

today.4. She brought cheese, bread, and

salami to the picnic.5. The boy fell on his back on the

sidewalk.


Agenda• Warm-up

• “Great Mouse Plot” review

• Perfect Paragraph notes

• Paragraph practice

• Reader’s Workshop


Great Mouse Plot• In your rows you will meet with your group

members. You will need one whiteboard and one marker.

• We will discuss each answer as a class• Before we do that, everyone in the groups

should share their answer. Decide on one and write it on the whiteboard.

• Hold it up so I can check it!


The paragraph is a series of

sentences developing one topic.


The Topic Sentence

• The topic of a paragraph is stated in one sentence. This is called the topic sentence.


The rest of the paragraph consists of sentences that

develop or explain the main idea. • Through the centuries rats

have managed to survive all our efforts to destroy them. We have poisoned them and trapped them. We have fumigated, flooded, and burned them. We have tried germ warfare. Some rats even survived atomic bomb tests conducted on Entwetok atoll in the Pacific after World War II. In spite of all our efforts, these enemies of ours continue to prove that they are the most indestructible of pests.

main idea

concludingsentence


A topic

sentence may

be developed

by telling

an

incident

A topic

sentence may

be developed

by telling

an

incident

Developing a Paragraph

A topic sentencemay be developedby giving

examples.

A topic sentencemay be developedby giving

examples.

• A topic sentence

may be developed

by giving details.

• A topic sentence

may be developed

by giving details.


Unity in the Paragraph

Every sentence in a paragraph should support the main idea expressed in the topic sentence.

main idea

sentencesentence

sentencesentence


The concluding or clincher sentence

• Restate the topic sentence in different words.

• A clincher sentence or concluding sentence clinches the point made in the paragraph.

• It summarizes the paragraph.


Coherence in a Paragraph

Coherence in a Paragraph

• Stick to the point: The ideas have a clear and logical relation to each other.

• Put details or examples or incidents in logical order.

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2

1chronological

in relation to each other

in order of importance


Connecting Sentences Within the Paragraph

chronological order

first

meanwhile

later

afterwards

finally

objects in relation to one another

next to

in front of

beside

between

behind

in order of importance

however

furthermore

as a result

in fact

yet

Transition words


Types of Paragraphs

• The narrative paragraph• tells a story

• The persuasive paragraph.• tries to convince the audience

• The descriptive paragraph• describes something

• The expository or explanatory paragraph• gives information or explains something


Your turn!• Using your graphic organizer, rewrite your

answer to #7 of The Great Mouse Plot to make perfect paragraph!

• You need: A topic sentence: Example- “In Roald Dahl’s story, The

Great Mouse Plot, the author experiences many emotions.”

Supporting details Concluding sentence

• Be ready to share yours.


More• Now write an expository paragraph

explaining how you felt about the story.

• Sample topic sentence: The entire time I was reading The Great Mouse Plot I was on the edge of my seat it was so exciting.

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