Defining terms
A a group of sentences that includes details supporting a specific point.
What is a paragraph?
Expresses a paragraph's main idea.
What is a topic sentence.
These are the sentence types which students are likely already familiar with.
What are questions (interrogative), exclamations (exclamatory), commands (imperative), statements (declarative)?
When the sentences in the paragraph are sequenced in a way that ensures clarity for the reader.
What is structure?
These provide details that relate to the general idea contained in the topic sentence.
What are the sentences in the body of a paragraph?
Before, after, if, finally, in conclusion.
What are conjunctions and transitions?
When the sentences are logically connected with transition words that signal that connection, including indications of a change of direction or emphasis.
What is coherence?
This may restate the main idea of the paragraph, although it shouldn't just be a repetition of the topic sentence.
What is the concluding sentence?
Second nouns, or phrases or clauses equivalent to a noun, that are placed beside another noun to explain it more fully.
What are appositives?
When every sentence supports the main idea of the paragraph.
What is unity?
These sentences require student to consider a collection of facts and information and decide which characteristics unite them-- in other words, to develop the ability to make generalizations.
What are topic and concluding sentences?
Using a sentence type, beginning with a subordinating conjunction, or including an appositive.
What are strategies students can use to construct a topic or concluding sentence?
Grammatically correct and clear sentences, types and structures vary (some simple, others compound or complex).
What are well-constructed sentences?
These are all of the parts of an SPO.
What are a topic sentence, detail sentences, and concluding sentence?
Strategies students may use to construct a topic or concluding sentence.
What are using a sentence type, beginning with a subordinating conjunction, or including an appositive?