1. Date: ________________ ELD Mr. Paniagua
Topic Sentences
Date: ________________
ELD
Mr. Paniagua

2. Topic Sentence Purpose: to create topic sentences that hook readers.
Before Examples
I’m going to tell you about the mystery I read.
This report is about the preying mantis.
The Boston Tea Party was the cause of the American Revolution.
This summer we went camping in Canada.

3. Brainstorm Box Will a question be effective?
What was unusual about Canada? (a visit from a bear cub)
What’s fascinating to include about mantis—female eats mate.
Boston Tea Party—colonists tossed 340 boxes of English tea into Boston Harbor.

4. After Examples
This mystery was so gripping that I read it on the school bus, at recess, and at lunch.
When a female preying mantis is hungry, she pounces on and devours her mate.
Why did the American colonists disguise themselves as Indians and throw 340 chests of English tea into Boston Harbor?
The morning a bear cub poked its head into my tent, I wondered why we were vacationing in the Canadian wilderness.

5. Practice: Use pictures to write a one sentence news flash to hook the reader.