Writing Topic Sentences about Theme

Mar 12
Lauren Crowley

I wish I could take credit for this idea below, but it’s a great idea I’ve seen others do, so I decided to make this handout for myself, changing a thing or two to fit the needs of my students.  Below is a handout that models a formula for creating powerful and coherent topic sentences to introduce a particular literary theme.

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// INSTRUCTIONS: array(“url”,”title”,”type”,”size”),
// AND only the last array() line does NOT have a comma at the end
$downloads = array(
array(“https://www.theteacherslibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/thematic-topic-sentence.pdf”,”Download Thematic Topic Sentence Sheet”,”pdf”,”416kb”),
array(“https://www.theteacherslibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/thematic-topic-sentence.pub”,”Download Thematic Topic Sentence Sheet”,”pub”,”416kb”)
);
insertDownloads($downloads);
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