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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Topic Sentences and Writing a Paragraph

I have been following FiveJ's blog for a while now. I have always wanted to do her meme - Thirsty Thursday. Today I have just the thing to submit for her meme.

This morning I was looking at my son's writing book. He is having trouble with writing topic sentences. So I looked at the links I had in my bookmarks and found nothing that would help. Next step... Google!

I found this great site with step by step help for writing sentences and paragraphs. We went over this together and then I assigned him to write a paragraph on one of the topics at the bottom of the page.

This is the main site:  http://www.tustin.k12.ca.us/cyberseminar/
This is the site with the sentence and paragraph mini-lesson:  http://www.tustin.k12.ca.us/cyberseminar/paragraph/paragraph.htm

There is also some help on this squidoo lens that I saved and have looked at recently. This is all about writing without using a purchased curriculum. I hope one of these sites helps you out.
http://www.squidoo.com/DIY-writing-curriculum

If you want to participate in Thirsty Thursday you can go to http://fivejs.com or click the link in the sidebar.

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2 comments:

  1. Joy @ Five J'sJanuary 22, 2010 at 10:09 AM

    Thanks so much for the Squidoo link. I've only recently become aware of the great resources available through the Squidoo lenses.

    And thanks for participating!

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  2. LeeJanuary 23, 2010 at 8:09 AM

    Thanks too for the Squidoo link. From there I downloaded a scope and sequence for PA, my home state so far away at the moment.

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