1. Building a Paragraph with a Bubble Map
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Building a Paragraph with a Bubble Map
Part 3

2. Idea Idea Topic Animals I saw at the zoo Build Your Bubble Map Tigers
1. Write your topic and draw a box around it.
Draw a line from your topic box for each idea. Write one idea at the end of each line.
Draw a line from your idea boxes. Use questions to help write details for each idea.
Write one detail at the end of each line.
Topic
Animals I saw at the zoo
Tigers
Idea
Idea
Elephants
Orange
What color were the tigers?
What did the tigers look like?
Black stripes
Gray
What color were the elephants?
What did the elephants look like?
Big ears

3. What topic sentence could you write with this bubble map?
Write a Topic Sentence
Look at your topic and idea boxes.
Use the topic and ideas to write one topic sentence.
Topic
Animals I saw at the zoo
Tigers
Idea
Idea
Elephants
What topic sentence could you write with this bubble map?

4. Tigers and elephants are two animals I saw at the zoo.
Build Your Hamburger
Tigers and elephants are two animals I saw at the zoo.
Topic Sentence

5. Write Detail Sentences
Look at one idea with the matching details.
Use the idea and details to write a sentence.
Topic
Animals I saw at the zoo
What sentence could you write from this idea and details?
Idea
Tigers
Orange
What color were the tigers?
Black stripes
What did the tigers look like?

6. Build Your Hamburger Topic Sentence 1st Detail Sentence
Tigers and elephants are two animals I saw at the zoo.
Topic Sentence
The tigers are orange with black stripes.
1st Detail Sentence

7. Write Detail Sentences
Look at one idea with the matching details.
Use the idea and details to write a sentence.
Topic
Animals I saw at the zoo
What sentence could you write from this idea and details?
Idea
Elephants
What color were the elephants?
Gray
What did the elephants look like?
Big ears

8. Build Your Hamburger Topic Sentence 1st Detail Sentence
Tigers and elephants are two animals I saw at the zoo.
Topic Sentence
The tigers are orange with black stripes.
1st Detail Sentence
2nd Detail Sentence
The elephants are gray with big ears.

9. Closing Sentence
A closing sentence should say the same thing as your topic sentence in a new way.

10. Closing Sentence Closing Sentence
Find the topic in the topic sentence.
Find the ideas in the topic sentence.
Use the topic and ideas to write a new sentence.
Tigers and elephants are two animals I saw at the zoo.
I saw a lot of animals at the zoo, but the tigers and elephants were my favorite.
Closing Sentence
The closing sentence uses the same topic and ideas in a new way.

11. Build Your Hamburger Topic Sentence 1st Detail Sentence
Tigers and elephants are two animals I saw at the zoo.
Topic Sentence
The tigers are orange with black stripes.
1st Detail Sentence
The elephants are gray with big ears.
2nd Detail Sentence
Closing Sentence
I saw a lot of animals at the zoo, but tigers and elephants were my favorite.

12. Our Finished Paragraph
Animals at the Zoo
Tigers and elephants are two animals I saw at the zoo. The tigers are orange with black stripes. The elephants are gray and have big ears. I saw a lot of animals at the zoo, but tigers and elephants were my favorite.