Lessons tagged with "supporting-paragraph"

This writing strategies lesson focuses on creating supporting and concluding paragraphs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read an introductory paragraph and identify the main idea. Then, they identify supporting sentences and create a supporting paragraph for each one. Last, students write a concluding paragraph. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.