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Sample Student Writing:

PROMPT: What are the three most important things that people can do to stay healthy?
(Think about ideas that we read about in Quest, and think about your own ideas for staying healthy, too. Some of the ideas you may want to talk about include diet, exercise, relaxation, stress, bad habits, relationships, and self esteem.)

 INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Use this topic sentence: In order to stay healthy, people should............... (state the three things here.)
2.Make sure you choose three different ideas and state them generally before discussing them specifically.
3.Then give specific reasons, examples, or details after each of your three ideas.
4. Write a title.
5. Write a concluding sentence.
6. Check your paragraph for subject-verb agreement, verb tense form and consistency, spelling, and punctuation.
Paragraph One: Ready | Paragraph Two: Not ready