Getting a Hand With Paragraph Building

This week we discussed how to build a paragraph in a report.  We learned that paragraphs follow a structure, which starts with a main idea and is followed by supporting, relevant details.  We borrowed some hand prints from Readers' Workshop to make our work easier.  We looked over our notes, focused our thoughts on the most important bits and set to work.  We created a main idea sentence in the palm of each hand.  Then we included supporting detail sentences on each finger.  Our goal was to have each detail match the main idea, or topic of the paragraph, as indicated on the palm.  By Friday, Early Life and Education or Training (our first two chapters) should have been completed.  We will spend next week creating the third chapter, Awards and Achievements, before working through the Timeline, Fun Facts, and Glossary sections.    How are your paragraphs coming along?  Compare your work to these two examples:

Example 1:

Example 2: