Explanatory — Draft the opening

Teacher edition · Grade 4 · Lesson 31 · Road-map project

Writing Book 4 · sheet 70

The topic sentence carries the whole paragraph.

2. Your turn

In your notebook: draft the opening for your own piece, double-spaced so there is room to correct.

Below is what a full, correct answer looks like. Children's wording will differ and should — mark the thing this lesson taught, not everything at once.

Read the one sentence you are most sure of.model — accept any answer that does the same job

3. Before you finish

Read the one sentence you are most sure of.

Watch forGive them a paragraph with an intruder sentence and have them find it. Faster than any explanation.