Reading and Writing

It is a sentence, group of sentences or a series of related sentences that supports one central, unified idea.

• SENTENCE

• PARAGRAPH

• WORD

• ESSAY

It is the main point of the paragraph.

• TOPIC SENTENCE

• MAIN PARAGRAPH

• SUPPORTING IDEA

• TITLE

tells a story

• NARRATION

• DESCRIPTION

• CLASSIFICATION

• DEFINITION

sequencing or putting details and information into some kind of logical order, usually chronological

• EXEMPLIFICATION

• DEFINITION

• CAUSE AND EFFECT

• NARRATION

to recreate, invent, or visually present a person, place, event, or action so that the reader can picture what is being described

• NARRATION

• DESCRIPTION

• COMPARISON AND CONTRAST

• EXEMPLIFICATION

heavily based on sensory details

• DESCRIPTION

• CAUSE AND EFFECT

• DEFINITION

• PERSUASION

used when categorizing people, objects, events, things, places, and other items

• CLASSIFICATION

• PERSUASION

• DEFINITION

• DESCRIPTION

Organizes ideas into divisions based on criteria or standards

• NARRATION

• CAUSE AND EFFECT

• COMPARISON AND CONTRAST

• CLASSIFICATION

presents the general statement and then provides specific and concrete examples

• DESCRIPTION

• PERSUASION

• NARRATION

• EXEMPLIFICATION

explains what something does, what something is used for, what something looks like

• DESCRIPTION

• DEFINITION

• CLASSIFICATION

• PERSUASION