Lesson 9 — Paragraphing Basics


In Theme 1, you reviewed parts of speech. Then you looked at the basic structure of sentences and some of the rules for punctuation.
Now you will put all of that together and learn about writing paragraphs.

In this lesson, you will:

  • review what paragraphs are
  • look at ways to begin writing paragraphs
  • learn about what paragraphs contain  

There are many different types of paragraphs.


Key Terms for this lesson:

  • paragraph
  • descriptive paragraph
  • persuasive paragraph
  • expository paragraph
  • narrative paragraph