Question

Read the following topic sentence:

Answer 1

The correct answer is C. Reading about the emotions of fictional characters helps students better relate to the feelings of others.

Explanation:

In writing, a topic sentence refers to the sentence that summarizes the idea that would be developed in a paragraph through other statements that can include statistics, facts, examples, reasons, etc. This also implies a sentence that supports a topic sentence should address the same point that the topic sentence and help to explain and supported it by providing reasons or illustrating it. Considering this, the sentence that would better support the topic sentence is "Reading about the emotions of fictional characters helps students better relate to the feelings of others", because the topic sentence presented explains student who read show more empathy and this detail provides a possible explanation to explain the development of that empathy  and therefore does not only address the same topic but supports it.

Answer 2

I believe this is the answer, "Reading about the emotions of fictional characters helps students better relate to the feelings of others."