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✍🏻 Curipod Skill Builder Series The ELA Skill Builder Series in Curipod offers engaging exercises that help students master writing and grammar skills. This whole class writing experience fosters a collaborative writing community through a blend of instruction, individual work, critical thinking, and classroom discussions. 🌟 Writing a Topic Sentence: This lesson is the second lesson of the Curipod Essay Writing Skill Builder Series. This lesson focuses on building student skills in writing clear topic sentences that have a direct connection to a thesis statement. This lesson addresses the purpose of topic sentences, differentiates topic sentences from evidence, provides students with a method for crafting topic sentences aligned with a writing task, and scaffolds students in building confidence while writing topic sentences through peer and AI feedback. ⏭ This lesson is followed by the next Skill Builder in the series "Using Evidence", which supports students in learning to paraphrase and cite evidence, while supporting topic sentences and thesis statements. 🦸 Learning Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to write a topic sentence, in alignment with a thesis statement. 🎯 Feedback: Students receive feedback to help them demonstrate this essential writing skill! 🛠 To Customize your Lesson: 1. Select your instructional subject area from the drop down. 2. Select the grade level from the drop-down. 3. Enter in the topic of your instructional unit, for content-aligned example thesis statements! 4. Click Customize now to personalize your lesson! 🚀 Pro-Tips: Use this Skill Builder to help students build confidence in their Quick Writes! Tags: Skill Builder, Thesis Statement, Writing Basics, Writing Starter, Writing Prompts, Essay Writing, Writing Starter, Writing Skills, Topic Sentence, Claim, Controlling Idea
