Types of Paragraphs – Use for Frayer Diagrams if

necessary.
3. The Claremont Huskies set a record last night for the
For each of the following paragraphs, complete the most consecutive wins. The team won its ninth game in
following: a row, beating the Fisher Flyers 74 – 56. The team
1. Identify the type of paragraph. Narrative, Expository, heads into the regional tournament with a 15 and 2
Persuasive/Argumentative or Descriptive) record, the best in school history. The first regional
2. Write a statement showing why you know your answer is game will be played Friday at 8:30 p.m. The Huskies will
correct. challenge the 10 and 7 Gifford Tigers at Gifford.
3. Underline two sentences in the paragraph that support
your analysis.
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1. Homework is an important part of the learning
process in middle school. One reason is that homework
4. When you walk into my Grammy's kitchen, it smells
gives students additional practice of skills covered in
like rich brown cinnamon and rosy applesauce. She says,
class. Students need both guided practice at school and
"Hi honey bun" greeting me with a big bear hug and a
independent practice at home. Another reason for
sugary kiss. Her kitchen windows are all steamed up
homework is that it provides time to complete longer
with the smells of buttery apple tarts, bubbling up
assignments. Since not all students do the work at the
brown and crispy warm from the oven. Grammy pours
same speed, homework gives students time at home to
hot chocolate into a fat, red mug and tops it with
finish the work and keeps them from falling behind.
whipped cream for me. I swirl a cinnamon stick around
Finally, students who do daily homework are more
in the hot chocolate and lick my lips, getting the last
prepared for test and make better grades. In
little crumbs of apple tart and think, what a good cook
conclusion, homework is essential to mastering new
my Grammy is!
skills and maintaining previously learned concepts.
Students- do your daily homework, make better grades
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and learn more.
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5. It goes back to a winter afternoon after I’d hunted the
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woods all day for a sign of our lost pet. I remember the
way my mother looked up as I came into the kitchen.
Without my speaking, she knew what had happened.
2. I can smell the wintergreen flavored tooth paste out
For six hours I had walked, reading signs, looking for a
in the hall even before I go into Dr. Smith's office. As
delicate print in the damp soil or even a hair that might
soon as I open the outer door, the blast of cool air from
have told of a red fox passing that way-but I had found
the air conditioner hits me in the face making me shiver
nothing.
all over. While I wait for the new nurse in her crisp white
uniform to call out my name, I look at the fish in the
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large blue tank in the corner of the room. The sleek fish
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dart about playing hide and seek with the plastic
snowman at the bottom of the tank while tiny silver
bubbles slip to the top of the tank's surface and break
6. We have a big decision to make. We can use
silently while I wait my turn. The nurse calls my name
cloth, paper, or plastic bags. I choose cloth
and I enter the inner office and sit in the white leather
because paper uses trees, and plastic uses
chair looking at all the shiny stainless steel equipment.
petroleum; so we should use cloth. Cloth bags
It's my turn.
are easy to take with you and use again and
again. We need to keep our earth clean, so let’s
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use cloth. Remember, recycle and reuse.
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7. Angles are formed by two rays that have the same
endpoint. This endpoint is called the vertex. Angles can
be found anywhere lines or line segments intersect.
Angles are named for the way they relate to 90 degrees
or 180 degrees. When an angle is less than 90 degrees,
it is called acute. An angle greater than 90 degrees and
less than 180 degrees is called obtuse.
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10. Our government should make sure that middle
school classrooms have a computer for each student.
The internet offers a universe of information that would
be at students’ fingertips. Students would also gain
valuable experience with word-processing, design and
video software. According to the department of Labor,
people with high computer skills are more likely to get
jobs than those with low computer skills. It’s time our
leaders put more computers in the classroom.

8. Lisa knew the first day of high school wouldn’t be
easy. She was starting her fifth school in seven years.
Her father’s job required her family to move often. The
first day was always the hardest and the saddest.
Stepping off the bus, Lisa dropped her bag. Her
notebook and pencils went flying. Several students
passed her by. Just when she thought she couldn’t get
any more flustered, a boy with blond hair and a friendly
smile knelt down to help her. “Are you new?” “Um,
yeah,” Lisa replied. “Why don’t you let me show you
around? Looks like you could use a friend,” Andrew
said. Smiling, Lisa replied, “Sure, that would be great,”
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11. Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, is the
oldest stadium in Major League Baseball. It opened on
April 20th, 1912, the same day as Detroit’s Tiger Stadium,
which is no longer used. The park was named for the
Fenway section, a neighborhood in the middle of
Boston. The park is famous for the “Green Monster,” its
37 foot-high left field wall.
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9. My day began around 8 a.m. when I was at the bus

stop with cold wind blowing wind in my face. When I
got on the bus, Al was waiting in the back seat. I took
the seat two rows back. Suddenly, I felt a little paper
ball hit the back of my head. Giggles rippled behind me.
I turned around. Al sneered under his cap. He lived to
torment me. But today, I had cooked up a plan to get
even.

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