OBJECTIVE:
Now that we have moved through the different types of sentences and tenses in the piclits.com curriculum, it is time to put our mastery of these sentences and tenses into a paragraph.

What makes up a paragraph? A topic sentence and supporting detail sentences. A topic sentence indicates the main idea of the paragraph usually begins the paragraph. And then descriptive details support the main idea of the paragraph follow. It need only be three to four sentences.

On piclits.com, you can select a photograph and make a statement about how you feel about the photograph or how the person in the photo is feeling. This statement will be the topic sentence and your description of the details in the photograph that support how you feel or how you think the person in the photo feels will be the three to four sentences.

This will allow you to think creatively about the photograph, develop paragraph organization skills, and engage the viewer of the photograph and help them see the photograph in a new way.

MODEL PIC-LIT:

Notice that the paragraph begins with a proposition about how the man in the photo feels about the bombed out village. This is the topic sentence. All of the sentences that follow are descriptive details that support the man’s despair and disbelief.

GUIDED PRACTICE WRITING PROMPT:

1. Go to piclits.com
2. Sign in with your e-mail and password
3. Select a picture from the gallery of pictures
4. In FREESTYLE mode, write a simple paragraph about a photograph that has a special significance to you. Be sure to develop a topic sentence that states how you feel about the photo or how you think the person is feeling in the photo. Ensure that all of the other sentences describe details in the photo that support why you feel as you do or why you think the person in the photo is feeling the way you describe.