1. What is a thesis statement?

2. What is a Thesis Statement?
It informs the reader of the topic of your essay.
It acts as a road map for your readers.
It helps you (the writer) organize your paper.

3. How long should the thesis statement be?
It is usually one to two sentences long.

4. Where should the thesis statement be in the paper?
It should be the last sentence of you introductory paragraph.

5. How do you write a thesis statement?
Step 1
It helps to create a question about your topic …
What is your topic?
Form your question.

6. How do you write a thesis statement?
Step 2
Finding reasons that will answer your question.
Try to think of at least 3 reasons

7. How do you write a thesis statement?
Step 3
It’s time to put it all together.
Take the information from step 1 and step 2 and combine it to make a sentence.

8. What is a Thesis statement?
Remember, your thesis statement is the road map for writing your paper.
Make sure you write about what your thesis says!

9. See how it works…