Body Paragraph Building Blocks
Evidence that is used to support the topic sentence.
What are Concrete Details?
This story moral highlights the importance of working hard and planning ahead and not taking shortcuts after the wolf in this tale fails to blow down a brick house.
What is the Three Little Pigs?
In Arizona, a decree declares that anyone caught stealing this must wash with it until it is all used up
What is soap?
Found in thesis. This is the lead in to the paragraph.
What is the Topic Sentence?
This story's moral, in which a prince has been turned into an amphibian, teaches that appearances can be misleading and that judging someone based on superficial traits can lead to missed opportunities.
What is The Frog Prince or The Princess and the Frog?
In Bromide, Oklahoma it is illegal for children to use these as capes and jump from houses pretending to be Superman
What are towels?
The explanation or interpretation of the concrete details. Helps support the topic sentence.
What is Commentary?
This story's moral of don't be greedy is illustrated by how a troll's greed for the biggest, tastiest goat leads to his downfall.
What is The Three Billy Goats Gruff?
City council in Albuquerque, N.M., introduced a resolution a few years ago to ban this jolly fellow from the city
Who is Santa Claus?
Summarizes the main idea and, in an essay, transitions to the next paragraph.
What is the Concluding Sentence?
Be cautious and not blindly believe everything you hear, especially when it comes to potentially alarming news and verifying information before acting on it is the moral of this tale about a chicken who thinks the sky is falling.
What is Chicken Little?
In Kansas, it is illegal to hunt these mammals.
What are Whales?
Topic Sentence, Concrete Details, Commentary, Concluding Sentence make up this.
What is the Body Paragraph?
Dishonesty and greed can have dangerous consequences are the moral of this story about a deceptive and manipulative figure who offers to spin straw into gold for a miller's daughter in exchange for her firstborn child.
What is Rumpelstiltskin?
According to Ohio law, it's against the law to kill this insect within 160 feet of a church without a license
What is a House Fly?