Under Construction:
Building a Paragraph with a Bubble Map
Part 3
Build Your Bubble Map
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Write your topic and draw a box around it.
Draw a line from your topic box for each idea. Write one idea at the end of each line.
Draw a line from your idea boxes. Use questions to help write details for each idea.
Write one detail at the end of each line.
Animals I Topic
saw at the zoo
Tigers
Idea
What color
were the
Orange
tigers?
What did
Black
the tigers
stripes
look like?
Elephants
Idea
What color
were
the
Gray
elephants?
What did
the
Big
ears
elephants
look like?
Write a Topic Sentence
1. Look at your topic and idea boxes.
1. Use the topic and ideas to write one topic sentence.
Animals I Topic
saw at the zoo
Tigers
Idea
Elephants
Idea
What topic sentence could you write with this bubble map?
Build Your Hamburger
Tigers and elephants are two
Topic
Sentence
animals I saw at the zoo.
Write Detail Sentences
1. Look at one idea with the matching details.
1. Use the idea and details to write a sentence.
Animals I Topic
saw at the zoo
Tigers
Idea
What color
were the
Orange
tigers?
What did
Black
the tigers
stripes
look like?
What sentence
could you write
from this idea
and details?
Build Your Hamburger
Tigers and elephants are two
TopicI saw
Sentence
animals
at the zoo.
The tigers
orangeSentence
with black stripes.
1stare
Detail
Write Detail Sentences
1. Look at one idea with the matching details.
1. Use the idea and details to write a sentence.
Animals I Topic
saw at the zoo
Elephants
What sentence
could you write
from this idea
and details?
Idea
What color
were
the
Gray
elephants?
What did
the
Big
ears
elephants
look like?
Build Your Hamburger
Tigers and elephants are two
Topic
Sentence
animals I saw at the zoo.
The tigersstare orange with black stripes.
1 Detail Sentence
nd Detail Sentence
2
The elephants are gray with big ears.
Closing Sentence
A closing sentence
should say the same thing
as your topic sentence in
a new way.
Closing Sentence
1. Find the topic in the topic sentence.
1. Find the ideas in the topic sentence.
2. Use the topic and ideas to write a new sentence.
Tigers and elephants are two animals I saw at the zoo.
I saw a lot of animals at the zoo, but the
tigers and elephants were my favorite.
Closing Sentence
The closing sentence uses the same topic and ideas in a new way.
Build Your Hamburger
Tigers and elephants are two
Topic
Sentence
animals I saw at the zoo.
The tigers
orangeSentence
with black stripes.
1stare
Detail
The elephants
are gray
with big ears.
2nd Detail
Sentence
I saw a lot of animals at the zoo, but tigers
Closing
Sentence
and elephants were my favorite.
Our Finished Paragraph
Animals at the Zoo
Tigers and elephants are two animals I saw
at the zoo. The tigers are orange with black
stripes. The elephants are gray and have big
ears. I saw a lot of animals at the zoo, but
tigers and elephants were my favorite.