Prompt Create three body paragraphs for your researched, informational essay. Your body paragraphs should explain your main ideas in the order you previewed them in your thesis statement. Remember, body paragraphs include a topic sentence that states the main idea of the paragraph several pieces of evidence that relate to the topic sentence an explanation in your own words of why each piece of evidence connects to the paragraph's main idea a concluding sentence that wraps up your paragraph, restates the main idea, or connects the paragraph to the overall essay's flow transitional words and phrases