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Writing a Paragraph

Select a Topic 🟪 Choose a topic that truly interests you.

Collect Details 🟪 Gather facts and examples.

• For a narrative paragraph, answer Who was involved? What happened? Where and when did it happen?
• For a descriptive paragraph, collect sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures.
• For an explanatory paragraph, gather important facts and examples.
• For a persuasive paragraph, use reasons to argue for your opinion.

Writing a Draft

Put Your Information in Order 🟪 

• Start with your topic sentence.

• Use the middle sentences (the body) to support the topic sentence.

• Sum everything up in the ending sentence.