Paragraph Types
This type of paragraph tells a story or describes a series of events.
What is a narrative paragraph?
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
Every complete sentence should have these two main parts.
What is a subject and a predicate?
This punctuation mark is used at the end of a question.
What is a question mark?
Identify the verb in this sentence: "The dog chased the squirrel."
What is chased?
This type of paragraph uses sensory details to help readers imagine a person, place, or thing.
What is a descriptive paragraph?
Identify the adverb in this sentence: "The students slowly finished their assignments."
What is slowly?
Identify the COMPLETE SUBJECT in this sentence: "The three excited students ran outside."
This punctuation mark is used to show possession or replace missing letters in contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
Identify the conjunction in this sentence: "I wanted to play outside, but it was raining."
What is "but?"
This type of paragraph presents an opinion or claim and supports it with reasons and evidence.
What is an argumentative paragraph?
Identify the preposition in this sentence: "The can slept underneath the table."
What is underneath?
This is the name for a group of words that does not express a complete thought.
What is a sentence fragment?
Correct the punctuation in this sentence: "After school we went to the park."
Identify what this fragment is missing: "Because the bus was late."
What is a subject?
This type of paragraph explores similarities and differences between two subjects.
What is a compare-and-contrast paragraph?
Name the parts of speech of all three capitalized words: "SHE QUICKLY RAN through the forest."
What is a pronoun (she), adverb (quickly), and verb (ran)?
Correct this run-on sentence using a comma and conjunction: "I wanted to go swimming it was too cold outside."
What is "I wanted to go swimming, but it was too cold outside."
Correct the punctuation in the sentence: "My favourite activities are hiking swimming and reading."
What is: "My favourite activities are hiking, swimming, and reading."
Identify the complete predicate in this sentence: "The talented students performed beautifully onstage."
Identify the paragraph type: "School should start later in the morning. Research suggests that teenagers need more sleep, and a later start can improve academic performance.
What is an argumentative paragraph?
What is: a pronoun (he); verb (ate); adverb (slowly); preposition (beside).
Correct this run-on sentence using a comma and conjunction: "I was hungry I ate some of Jeremy's bread."
Correct the punctuation in this sentence: Wow said Maya I can't believe we won
This sentence contains two errors. Identify and correct both: "The student's was excited that they had finished their project."
What is "The students were excited that they had finished their project."