Main Ideas & Paragraph Structure

1. Use the following Web Page to practice finding the main idea of paragraphs. Read each paragraph and choose the correct topic sentence. Answers are in hypertext and explanations are given for wrong choices.

Review: Topic Sentences

2. Go to the following Web page and read the information concerning the topic sentence, support sentences, and detail/example sentences. Complete the hypertext activities numbers 3 & 4 and check your answers against the hypertext answer key menu.

Identifying Sentence Types