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Writing a Draft
Write the Beginning 🟪 Your first paragraph should grab your readers’ attention and tell what your essay is about. Here are some starting strategies:
🟪 Ask a question.
What pet is best? Third-graders speak up!
🟪 Share a surprising statistic.
A whopping 84.9 million American houses have a pet. That’s 67 percent. But which is best?
🟪 End the paragraph with a sentence that shares the main finding from your poll. This sentence tells what the essay will be about.
One third of Mrs. Dernay’s 3rd graders love dogs best, followed closely by cats and birds.