Classic Paragraphs

Teacher edition · Grade 7 · Lesson 10 · Literature · The Writing of Literature

Writing Book 7 · sheet 49

A paragraph that has lasted is a paragraph worth taking apart.

2. Your turn

In your notebook: apply Classic Paragraphs to three sentences of your own, double-spaced.

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 out one sentence that uses Classic Paragraphs.model — accept any answer that does the same job

3. Before you finish

Read out one sentence that uses Classic Paragraphs.

Watch for“Because it sounds better” is the beginning of an answer. Ask what the reader would have known too early or too late.