Introduction

• Opens the paragraph

• Hooks your reader by starting with a:

  • Question

  • Feeling or emotion

  • Sound

  • Exclamation

  • Complaint

  • Repetition

  • Description

  • Adjectives

  • Has a topic sentence

    • tells what the paragraph is mostly about or the main idea

Supporting sentences

• • gives more information about the topic sentence or main idea

  • Can be facts, statistics, opinions, or examples

Conclusion

• • restates the main idea in different words

  • summarizes the supporting sentences of the paragraph

  • give a sense of closure and wraps up the paragraph