Joy at Home Posted October 24, 2010 Share Posted October 24, 2010 Any fun resources/suggestions for helping dd9 work on choosing topic sentences? Maybe a fun workbook type thing? thanks!! lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieZ Posted October 24, 2010 Share Posted October 24, 2010 Can you elaborate? I don't quite understand what you are looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joy at Home Posted October 24, 2010 Author Share Posted October 24, 2010 Can you elaborate? I don't quite understand what you are looking for. Sorry - We are using IEW and writing reports, but dd is having trouble writing a topic sentence. For instance, a report on elephants with a first paragraph pertaining to habitat, she would write four or five sentences, then go back and try to write a topic sentence for the paragraph. She'll draw a blank; even a simple one, like, "Elephants live in many different habitates" does not come naturally to her. So I guess what I'm looking for are exercises, and I know I've seen them in various workbooks before but can't remember the name, where four or five sentences on a topic are listed and you have to come up with a strong topic sentence. And yes, I know I could work on this myself but dd loves workbooks and doesn't use many of them, so I thought this might be a good way for her to practice. thanks, lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitestavern Posted October 24, 2010 Share Posted October 24, 2010 The Writing Skills workbook (Book 1) by Diana King provides practice pages for topic sentences, as well as supporting sentences, concluding sentences and many other writing skills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt_Uhura Posted October 24, 2010 Share Posted October 24, 2010 Paragraph Writing Made Easy is another one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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