BASIC ENGLISH
2023-2
ACADEMIC FILE
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT: WRITING 1
A DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH
GUIDED PRACTICE
Name: Date: 14 / 09 /2023
Teacher: Class: BE S-022
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Develops pre-writing and writing skills and strategies
Identifies the elements of a paragraph
Elaborates supporting ideas and details.
LEAD-IN: ALLOTTED TIME: 8 minutes
How much do you know about paragraph writing?
STUDY SKILL 1: ALLOTTED TIME: 5 minutes
Writing a Paragraph
Learning to write a well-structured paragraph is like a
hamburger in which you have to consider three parts:
Parts:
Topic sentence:
The first sentence – often called the topic sentence which
introduces the subject of the paragraph.
A topic sentence has two main parts: topic and the controlling idea.
Halloween is a traditional American holiday.
Topic Controlling Idea
TASK 1: ALLOTTED TIME: 8
minutes
In groups/ pairs, write a topic sentence for the following writing tasks:
1
Campos Gala Dayana Estefany
Passoni Telles Carmen
