- Grab an envelope.
- Find paragraph 3.
- Reorder the sentences in the paragraph by writing the letters in the correct order.
Lesson: Today the students practiced identifying the parts of a paragraph by reading the sample paragraph on page 9 of their packet. For a copy of the packet, click here. To take apart the paragraph, the students followed these steps:
- Read the whole paragraph.
- In your own words, explain the main idea of this paragraph.
- Highlight the topic sentence green.
- Write down the topic sentence on the outline.
- Highlight the concluding sentence red.
- Write down the concluding sentence on the outline.
- Highlight the three big ideas yellow.
- Write down the three big ideas on the outline.
- Get your work checked by the teacher before moving on to the next step.
- Highlight each supporting detail for each big idea.
- Write down the supporting details on the outline.
- Get your completed outline checked by the teacher.
Homework: Finish page 9 if you did not finish it in class.
Homework: None