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Paragraph structure
This document discusses the key components of an effective paragraph, including the topic sentence, supporting sentences, and concluding sentence. It outlines four components of an effective body paragraph: unity around a controlling idea, logical order and organization, coherency through connection between sentences, and completeness with sufficient details to support the topic sentence. The document provides resources for a 6th grade English class on a class website.
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- 1. The Paragraph &its parts UNIT 6.2: NON-FICTION STUDY: CHALLENGES FACING COMMUNITIES 6TH GRADE
- 2. Review of thePast Class… Unit 2 Second Test will be in the upcoming weeks
- 3. Class Resources Website:http://englishclassbv.blogspot.com/ TAB: 6th Grade Class Material
- 4. Objective: The students willdevelop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing and applying appropriate sentence structure and word order.
- 5. The Paragraph a distinctsection of a piece of writing, usually dealing with a single theme and indicated by a new line, indentation, or numbering.
- 6. Parts of aParagraph The topic sentence states the main idea of the paragraph. It names and limits the topic The specific area delimited is called the controlling idea.
- 7. Parts of aParagraph Supporting sentences develops the topic sentence They do this by giving: Reasons, examples, facts, statistics, quotations
- 8. Parts of aParagraph The concluding sentence marks the end of the paragraph and often summarizes or raises the key point of the paragraph.
- 9. Four Components ofEffective Body Paragraph Unity he thesis statement — a paragraph has its controlling idea — the topic sentence. And just as an engine drives a train, the topic sentence drives the paragraph
- 10. Four Components ofEffective Body Paragraph Order Another word for “order” is organization. If the paragraph possesses a “plan,” if the topic idea is developed logically, sequentially, spatially, in order of importance, or in another pattern, then the paragraph possesses order.
- 11. Four Components ofEffective Body Paragraph Coherency Coherency is the “glue” of writing. Sentences within a paragraph need to be connected (or glued) to each other, as cars on a train are connected to each other.
- 12. Four Components ofEffective Body Paragraph Completeness If a paragraph offers sufficient supporting details to support its topic sentence, then it exhibits completeness.
- 13. Class Resources Website:http://englishclassbv.blogspot.com/ TAB: 6th Grade Class Material