Identifying Supporting Details, Writing Supporting Details Practice Worksheets

Help students learn and practice paragraph writing with these lesson handouts and practice worksheets! 7 Printable PDF pages, 7 Google Slides, plus Answer Key. Designed for grades 5-12. Includes: handout on the structure of a paragraph, and where and how supporting details fit within a paragraph; also includes a brief introduction to how to organize supporting details (chronological, description, process, etc.) handout with graphic organizer how to create supporting details from a topic sentence worksheet on identifying unnecessary details in a paragraph; students are given paragraphs, then are tasked with identifying the unnecessary details, and explain why these details are not needed or don't fit multiple choice activity on choosing the supporting idea that does NOT support a topic sentence graphic organizer work on creating supporting ideas: students are given a topic sentence, then are tasked with creating supporting ideas to support the topic sentence and controlling idea