HOW TO WRITE AN 8 SENTENCE PARAGRAPHHOW TO WRITE AN 8 SENTENCE PARAGRAPH

Written by Jay Sternitzky Illustration by Matt StrackbeinWritten by Jay Sternitzky Illustration by Matt Strackbein

My teacher assignedme an eight sentence

paragraph to write. So,start with…

…myintroduction!

Even though near Earth asteroidsare in the news every week itseems, the chances of an astroidstriking our planet any time soonis highly unlikely.

…but scientists do have someidea how often they happen.

Collisions with the Earthare random events,…

Small asteroids, or meteorites asthey are known once they enterthe Earth’s atmosphere, are avery low hazard. There has neverbeen a report of a human beingkilled by one.

Traffic, pollution and evenlightning are much moredangerous than smallmeteorites.

Localized events, such as the1908 Tunguska event, happen everycouple of hundred years and is theequivalent to a hydrogen bomb.

A regional destruction, such asan impact in Southeast Asia,occurs in intervals of onehundred thousand years andwould devastate a mid sizedcountry.

A true global destruction eventhappens less often than every tenmillion years. The K-T Event, whichis thought to cause the extinctionof dinosaurs, was one such event.

...NASA has already discoveredmost of near Earth asteroids largerthan 1 km, and none of them seemto be heading this way.

It is highly unlikely that a regionalor global destruction would occurin next couple of centuriesbecause...

Now write your concluding sentence.It should restate your idea. One more supporting sentence!Continue to write sentences

that support your idea.

…or introduce anotheritem to go with your idea.

The next sentence canfurther expand on theposition of the previoussentence,…

YIKES!

Now write a sentencewhich begins to support your idea.

This sentence tells the readerwhat the paragraph is about.

The next sentence should bethe introduction of the ideayou are writing about.