Add a Daily Dose of Informational Writing Practice!

Incorporating regular informative paragraph writing prompts into classroom routines is an effective way to help students develop essential writing skills. Regular exposure to short, focused informational writing activities encourages students to organize their thoughts, present information clearly, and practice the structure of a well-developed paragraph.

Thankfully, the Teach Starter team has created this comprehensive set of informative writing topic sentence ideas to engage and motivate your learners. Each slide contains a different topic sentence for an age-appropriate persuasive topic. Some examples include:

• Farm animals play an important role in providing food products for humans.
• Sleep is an essential function that is needed by all living things for survival.
• Winter is the season of colder temperatures, cloudy skies and snow.
• Earthquakes can be dangerous and destructive natural disasters.
• Fossils provide clues about animals and plants that lived millions of years ago.

20 Informative Paragraph Topic Sentence Starters in One Go!

This Google Slides interactive activity is designed to help students practice and improve their informational writing skills. It features 20 high-interest informational paragraph topic sentences, each presented on a separate slide. 

This resource downloads as a Google Slides presentation. Students can type directly into the slides or use them as a springboard for handwritten work in their notebooks. Teachers can also use the slides for whole-class modeling, making it easy to jointly construct informative paragraphs with students.

Download and Use Your Informative Writing Activity Today!

 To get your new resource, click the Download button. You will be prompted to make your own copy. From there, the file can be assigned to each student through Google Classroom or another learning management system.

Now, you’re ready to get your students started with informative paragraphs!

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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Use a printable animal research organizer booklet for students to record facts about animals when learning to write informative texts.