Paragraph Structure

Select the best topic sentence for the paragraph.
When you bake cookies, you first have to make sure you have all the ingredients. Then you have to mix them together. Finally, you have to put them in the oven.

• Baking cookies is really easy to do.
• My grandma has the best cookies recipe.
• There are a few steps you must follow when making cookies.
• Cookies are easier to make than cake.

What is the main point of this paragraph?
I will be looking after my neighbours' dog this week.  They have gone abroad on holiday and cannot take it with them. I will feed him and take him for walks every day.  I'm really looking forward to it.

• Going on holiday.
• Enjoying dogs.
• Looking after a neighbour's dog.
• Getting on with your neighbour.

In writing a paragraph, what is the first sentence called.

• Sequence sentence
• Capital sentence
• Topic sentence
• Concluding sentence

What are supporting sentences in a paragraph?

• true and false sentences

• sentences about the conclusion

• short sentences

• details about the topic sentences

Transition words like first, next, and lastly are used to organize the details in the middle of the paragraph.

• True

• False

What is an introduction paragraph?

• The second paragraph of your essay that introduces the main topic.

• The fifth paragraph of your essay that introduces the main topic.

• The first paragraph of your essay that introduces the main topic.

• The third paragraph of your essay that introduces the main topic.

Which is the topic sentence?
I hate cleaning!  I have to do it every week and it's so boring. I have to clean the bathroom, wash the floors and hoover everywhere.  I wish we could just pay a cleaner to do it instead.

• I have to do it every week and it's so boring. 
•  have to clean the bathroom, wash the floors and hoover everywhere.
• I hate cleaning! 
• I wish we could just pay a cleaner to do it instead.

What is the last sentence in a paragraph called?

• topic sentence
• supporting sentence
• concluding sentence
• opinion sentence

What is a paragraph?

• A set of words that is complete in itself, containing a subject, verb and object.

• A unit of grammatical organization which traditionally consists of a subject and predicate.

• A group of sentences that are all related to one main topic.

The following can help a paragraph flow and become more high level

• slang words

• improperly used transition words and phrases

• inventive and informal spelling

• properly used transition words and phrases