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Language Arts - Writing: Elaboration and Supporting Details

Middle School Reading: Main Ideas with Supporting Details Gives strategies to find supporting details before actually reading.
Paragraph Development:  Coordination and Subordination of Details from WedNet. See also Writing Effective Paragraphs.
Supporting details Gives seven ways to provide details.
Supporting Details A really simple clear example. Click on Paragraph Menu to see many kinds of paragraphs.
Supporting Details Rubric Just print out and use.
Supporting details give specific examples that tell more about your topic sentence. Illustrates building from a topic sentence to reasons to examples for reasons; and then an example.