Topic Sentences

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Eddie Halliday
Topic Sentences
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English: Language
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Originally written as part of a Literacy Progress Unit, this handy powerpoint, focusing on topic sentences, can easily be adapted. Students identify a topic sentence within a paragraph before writing their own in a missing part of a text.

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Making a resource that was part of a nationwide strategy is a little rich!

Dany Porter

01/11/2020

I don't think these are examples of good topic sentences at all! Too many of them are statements of fact which do not make a good topic sentence, particularly in an essay in which a case is being put forward. Students should learn the skill of argument, not stating facts, when writing an essay.

18/09/2013

I can't see the resource - or any on topic sentences...

08/09/2013

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Making a resource that was part of a nationwide strategy is a little rich!

Dany Porter

01/11/2020

I don't think these are examples of good topic sentences at all! Too many of them are statements of fact which do not make a good topic sentence, particularly in an essay in which a case is being put forward. Students should learn the skill of argument, not stating facts, when writing an essay.

18/09/2013

I can't see the resource - or any on topic sentences...

08/09/2013

5

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