TOPIC SENTENCE AND SUPPORTING SENTENCES

Topic sentence

 The most important sentence in a paragraph

 A sentence that summarizes the main idea of a paragraph
 A sentence, sometimes at the beginning of a paragraph
 A sentence that capture the meaning of entire paragraph
 A sentence that introduces a paragraph by presenting the one topic
Supporting sentences

 A sentence with information that supports the main idea

 Provide examples for the topic sentence
 The Sentence that follow a topic sentence
How the supporting
sentences can develop
the topic sentence.
The sentences that follow a
topic sentence are called
supporting sentences. They
support the topic sentence in
the same way that the legs of
the table support the
tabletop. Supporting
sentences show the reader
why the topic sentence is
true.
 At the Hair Salon
The young woman in photo B looks
nervous. She is at a hair salon. A
man is cutting her hair. She is sitting,
and she has a towel around her
shoulders. The man is standing in
back of her. He is holding her hair
with one hand. He has a pair of
scissors in his other hand. He is
saying something. She is trying to
smile. She is wondering, “What is he
doing? Am I making a mistake?”.
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