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Paragraph Development Exercise: Familiar to Unfamiliar WritingParagraph Development Exercise: Familiar to Unfamiliar Writing
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Paragraph Development Exercise: Familiar to Unfamiliar

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Demonstrate how to draw in readers by starting a paragraph with a familiar topic, and then moving into the more complex ideas after they are already engaged. Writers can read over the example, which is a bit abstract and might need revision, and compose their own paragraphs in the same style.

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paragraph writing, paragraphs

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paragraph development, organizational pattern, english language arts
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Grade
11th - 12th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Writing Prompts
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For Teacher Use
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Instructional Strategy
Writing

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