Writing Book 5 · Lesson 21

Different Kinds of Paragraphs

Paragraphs that explain, describe or argue are built differently.

What you read today

Paragraph Town, pages 75–75 — the chapter Different Kinds of Paragraphs.

This lesson's text is the book itself. Your teacher has the pages; read them with the class, then do the work on your sheet.

Remember
Read it as a writer: not only what happens, but what the author did to make it happen that way.

Ask yourself: “What is this paragraph trying to do?”

Different jobs, different shapes.