A paragraph is a group of ____ that share the same idea. We use paragraphs to ____ our writing and to make it ____ for the ____ to follow. When you start a new ____ you write on a new line. When writing paragraphs, it’s helpful to use ____ words or phrases to help the ____ make sense of your whole text. If you’re writing about something that’s happened in the ____, you can use phrases to link ____ over a period of time. A topic sentence gives you the main ____ in a paragraph. It’s often (but not always) the first sentence in a paragraph. For example, if you’re ____ about travel and you want to write a ____ about how much travel has changed over the years, you could start your paragraph with a general statement, such as Travel has changed completely in the last hundred years. This is your ____ sentence.

Structuring paragraphs

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