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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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- 3rd - 5th
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Students write expository paper explaining concepts associated with simple machines. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students explore expository writing. 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 »
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- 5th
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Students practice expository writing while integrating content from core curriculum. They write business and friendly letters and nonfiction and fiction book reports. 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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- 5th - 7th
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Students explore the writing of expository pieces. They discover the main components of the writing process. Students apply those components by creating a plan for a short paper. Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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Students think of an insect or animal and write a short paragraph on why they like/dislike that animal or insect. They then discover the main components of the writing process, and apply those components by creating a plan for a short paper. 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 »

