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Paragraphs: Topic Sentences, Supporting Sentences, and Concluding Sentences
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Paragraphs
Put these sentences in order.
Topic Sentences and Supporting Details
Which is the concluding sentence?
Our part of District 12, nicknamed the Seam, is usually crawling with coal miners heading out to the morning shift at this hour. Men and women with hunched shoulders, swollen knuckles, many who have long since stopped trying to scrub the coal dust out of their broken nails, the lines of their sunken faces. But today the black cinder streets are empty. Shutters on the squat gray houses are closed. The reaping isn't until two. May as well sleep in. If you can.
The shock of the moment is registering on his face, you can see his struggle to remain emotionless, but his blue eyes show the alarm I've seen so often in prey.
I watch him as he makes his way toward the stage.
Yet he climbs steadily onto the stage and takes his place.
Medium height, stocky build, ashy blonde hair that falls in waves over his forehead.
Concluding Sentence
Parts of a paragraph:
What is a concluding sentence?
Topic sentence
What does it tell us?
A concluding sentence should summarize the paragraph or transition into the next paragraph.
Supporting sentences
Topic Sentence
Which is the topic sentence?
The shock of the moment is registering on his face, you can see his struggle to remain emotionless, but his blue eyes show the alarm I've seen so often in prey.
Concluding sentence
What is a topic sentence?
What does it tell us?
I watch him as he makes his way toward the stage.
Yet he climbs steadily onto the stage and takes his place.
A topic sentence tells us what the rest of the paragraph is going to be about.
Medium height, stocky build, ashy blonde hair that falls in waves over his forehead.
Which are the supporting sentences?
The shock of the moment is registering on his face, you can see his struggle to remain emotionless, but his blue eyes show the alarm I've seen so often in prey.
I watch him as he makes his way toward the stage.
Yet he climbs steadily onto the stage and takes his place.
Supporting Sentences
Medium height, stocky build, ashy blonde hair that falls in waves over his forehead.