WRITING HANDOUTS FOR TAB1

HOW TO WRITE SUPPORTING SENTENCES AND CONCLUDING SENTENCE

I. Supporting sentences
I.1. Definition

I.2. Practice
Activity 1: Predicting paragraph content from the controlling idea

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Activity 2: Reading example supporting sentences

Read the following paragraph, notice how the supporting sentences tell you more about
the topic sentence. Compare what you wrote in Activity 1 to the ìnformation in each
paragraph. How well did you predict the content?
Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

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Paragraph 3

Activity 3: Matching supporting and topic sentences

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Activity 4: Brainstorming topic sentences

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Activity 5: Asking for more information

Choose two of your topic sentences from Activity 5 and write them below. Then write
four questions about each topic. Remember to use who? what? where? when? why? or
how? If you cannot think of four questions, brainstorm some ideas with a classmate.

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Activity 6: Identifying the unrelated sentences

Read the following paragraphs and underline the one sentence that does not belong
because it is not connected closely with the supporting ideas in the topic sentence
Paragraph 1

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Paragraph 2

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II. Concluding sentence

II.1. Definition

Example

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Example

II.2. Practice:
Activity 7: Analyzing paragraphs
Read each paragraph below and

Paragraph 1

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Paragraph 2

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