Question

ideas each paragraph should have a topic sentence. it tells the reader what the paragraph is mainly about. a. read this book report. circle its topic sentence. use proofreading marks to fix the sentences that do not begin with a capital letter. stellaluna stellaluna is a story about a little baby bat. one day, stellaluna falls out of her tree and into a bird nest. she becomes part of the birds family. but she still wants to do the things that bats do. she even hangs upside down like a bat! the mother bird tells stellaluna she cant act like a bat. she has to act like a bird. in the end, stellaluna decides that its ok to be a bat and still be friends with the birds. b. this book report is missing its topic sentence. read the report. then write a topic sentence for it. where the wild things are at dinnertime, max acts like a monster. his mother sends him to his room. then he gets angry and imagines that he is in a boat. he sails to another world that has wild monsters! when max finally comes home, he thinks he has been gone for a year and is sad. but he hasnt been gone that long! its still dinnertime, and max is happy again. topic sentence: reread the book report in activity b. use proofreading marks to fix the sentences that do not begin with a capital letter.

Explanation:

A topic - sentence states the main idea of a paragraph. In part A, "Stellaluna is a story about a little baby bat." is the topic - sentence as it introduces the subject of the paragraph. For part B, a suitable topic - sentence for "Where the Wild Things Are" could be "Where the Wild Things Are is a story about Max's imaginative adventure."

Answer:

A. Stellaluna is a story about a little baby bat.
B. Where the Wild Things Are is a story about Max's imaginative adventure.