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- 5th - 7th
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Students take notes while being taught a step-by-step plan of how to write a good expository writing piece. After each step, have students do it. Write the plan on the board, a chart, or the overhead. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students explore expository writing. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students create a thematic booklet containing examples of different types of expository text structures. They explore a variety of expository text structures. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students, after reading Fahrenheit 451, brainstorm inventions that could have been in the novel. They present their invention to the class and writing an expository essay about their creation. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students practice expository writing in the core content areas of geography, history, science. They investigate paragraph structure, note taking, and summarizing among other expository writing skills. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th - 9th
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Students will write expository essays. They are divided into groups of two and given an expository topic. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students write a five-paragraph expository essay on what kind of friends they like to have. They organize their thoughts using a Think-Sheet graphic organizer, write the five-paragraph essay, edit their essay with a partner, and read their paragraph aloud to the class. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students write an expository essay using figurative language that explains why Marty, one of the characters in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's novel, Shiloh, dislikes Judd Travers. They create a cover page for their writing using the computer and present their writing to the whole class. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students explore what qualities an expository has. They identify qualities of an expository in TEAMs after each book has been read. They explain the definition of an expository and why we write them. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine articles from a number of sources to determine their main ideas and details, and discuss them as a class. Using a worksheet, they practice outlining a report after watching a teacher demonstration of the outlining process. Finally, they visit the library to choose a piece of expository writing to outline. Full Review »

