Consider the claim. Streetlights should be added to the neighborhood to improve evening safety for pedestrians.

Identify reasons that support this claim. Check all that apply.

shadows from trees obscure people and objects at the edge of the street.

the nearby park and pool promote heavy pedestrian traffic in the evenings.

the neighborhood association has funds available for safety maintenance.

these are the reasons that support the claim.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.