1. PWS Detail Sentences
Details Lesson 1

2. Review P E N S

3. Review
Define Topic Sentence

4. Review Define General Topic Sentence Define Clueing Topic Sentence
Define Specific Topic Sentence

5. 3A Completed
I want you to try 3A # 9 and 10 on your own. You will have 10 minutes.
Please show respect by being silent and raising your hand and wait silently for me or to come to you. One of us will get to you as soon as possible.

6. What have you learned?
You have learned about Topic Sentences. You have control of thee first part of the paragraph writing puzzle.
Today you will begin learning about details.

7. Insert Cue Card 19
Try putting this puzzle together in your notebook.

8. Importance?
These two pieces of the puzzle, Detail Sentences and Paragraph Diagram will help you plan and create the body of the paragraph. Once you acquire these two pieces of the puzzle, you will have only one more piece to acquire. Then we will work on multi-paragraph essays.

9. Expectation I need you to listen, answer my questions, and take notes.
I am certain you will be able to master writing details in two weeks. In four week, we should have mastered all parts of a paragraph.

10. Detail Sentences Detail sentences form the body of the paragraph.
If you think of the Topic Sentence as the appetizer of the paragraph, the Detail Sentences are the main course. They are the meat , potatoes, and vegetable portion of the paragraph.
They fill up the reader’s mind much the same way the main course of a meal fills up your stomach.

11. Details Cue Card 20 Detail Sentences
Discusses one of the details in the paragraph.
Sometimes it shows the relationship between a detail and the rest of the paragraph.

12. Details Cue Card 20

13. Details Pretend you have a Topic Sentence:
You can study several subjects in school.
Give me the details.

14. You can study several subjects in school.
Detail Sentences:

15. The sentences we wrote were main details.
We have to be careful about filling our paragraphs with Detail Sentences that names only the main points.

16. For Example Suppose I was writing a paragraph about school.
There are many subjects in school. One subject is math. Another subject is science. There is language arts. One subject is reading. There is social studies.
Is this paragraph boring?

17. Boring Yes, my paragraph was boring.
In order to make a paragraph interesting, a writer should give interesting details and explain those details.
This is the reason why I tell you to explain your details. Don’t just give me a list. Tell me something about it.

18. Look at the train. Look at clue card #21. This is a train.
The Topic Sentence is the train engine, and the cars are the details.
These cars are connected by a device or lock that keeps the cars together.
When writing details, we have transitions that keep the details together.
How many box cars do you see? How many details?

19. Cue Card 21

20. 3 Cars and 7 Details
The engine is the Topic Sentence, for it drives the train.
Let us pretend the Topic Sentence is about making a banana split.
What are your details?

21. Banana Split One detail is ice cream flavors.
The second detail is the types of syrup.
The third could be the toppings.
Let us make an outline of this type of paragraph.

22. Outline Topic – Ice Cream – Banana Split Details A. Detail 1
B. Detail 2
C. Detail 3

23. Attaching the Cars
The Box cars are attached to the engine with a coupling device. In paragraph writing, the coupling device is called transition words.
Look at where they are attached.
Where is the first coupling device?
The second?
The third?

24. Purpose of Transition Cue Card 22
1. It singles a new detail to the reader
2. It shows the relationship between the detail and the rest of the paragraph.

25. Banana Split
Let us add transition words to the details on our outline.

26. Topic – Ice Cream- Banana Split
Transition 1 – Detail 1
Transition 2 – Detail 2
Transition 3 – Detail 3

27. Next Lesson
In the next lesson will explain how detail sentences may need another sentence to clarify its meaning.