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EXERCISE
1 H ere are some details about giraffes. Write a topic sentence below.
Giraffes and horses sleep standing up. Snakes and fish sleep
with their eyes open. Bats sleep hanging upside down. Some
birds wrap their claws around branches.Then they won’t fall
off as they sleep. Cats can sleep 20 hours a day!
2 H ere’s part of a paragraph.The topic sentence is here, and one detail. Add
two more details below.
I wish I were sick! When I am sick, I don’t have to go to
school.
3 H ere are some details from a paragraph. First write a good topic sentence.
Then add one more detail of your own.
As soon as we opened the closet, we saw the newborn
kittens!There were five of them!The kittens were all white
as snow.
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1 H ere are some details about giraffes. Write a topic sentence below.
Giraffes and horses sleep standing up. Snakes and fish sleep
with their eyes open. Bats sleep hanging upside down. Some
birds wrap their claws around branches.Then they won’t fall
off as they sleep. Cats can sleep 20 hours a day!
2 H ere’s part of a paragraph.The topic sentence is here, and one detail. Add
two more details below.
I wish I were sick! When I am sick, I don’t have to go to
school.
3 H ere are some details from a paragraph. First write a good topic sentence.
Then add one more detail of your own.
As soon as we opened the closet, we saw the newborn
kittens!There were five of them!The kittens were all white
as snow.
Unit 4. ORGANIZATION ✷ 41
