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Keeping a paragraph to one idea

English · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes

Testing every sentence against the topic sentence, and cutting what belongs elsewhere.

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Other lessons in this sub-strand

  1. Building a paragraph
  2. Linking and organising
  3. Keeping a paragraph to one idea
  4. Building a short piece from paragraphs