Objectives:

• Students will be able to identify and write a topic sentence, information sentence and a closing sentence.
• Students will be able to write an effective paragraph

Materials: pencil, paper, overhead projector, construction paper.

Procedures:

1. Inform students that a paragraph is a group of sentences regarding one subject or topic. This topic can be a person, place, thing or idea.
2. Next, remind the students that a topic sentence tells what the entire paragraph is about.
3. The information sentence gives details about the topic sentence.
4. The closing sentences sums up the paragraph.
5. The students will identify the topic sentence, information sentence, and closing sentences from the overhead.
6. Student Activity: After students are able to identify the three types of sentences, they will practice writing them. Students will be given the following topic sentence.  They will modify this sentence to create their own original topic sentence.
       Summer is the best time of the year.
7. Preparation for writing: Before they begin writing, students must make a list or a brainstorming web to collect details, thoughts and information surrounding the topic.

Homework:

Write your paragraph about summer as discussed in class with each of the following components:

1. Topic sentence
2. Information sentences
3. Concluding sentences.
4. At least 6 sentences long.

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