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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write Expository Text That Is Logically Organized

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to write an organized expository text in five lessons: Introduction, The Type of Burger: The Controlling Idea, Toppings: The...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write Expository Text That Synthesizes Ideas

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to bring ideas together in an expository text in four lessons: Introduction, Analyzing Our Sources, Pulling Out the Major Points...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write Expository Text That Is Logically Organized

For Students 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to write an expository text that is logically organized, with a controlling idea and an effective introduction and conclusion.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write Expository Text That Synthesizes Ideas

For Students 8th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to write an expository text that synthesizes ideas.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing Expository Text Summaries

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This resource presents instructional practices for writing summaries of expository text in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies classes.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Make Inferences in Informational/expository Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will be taking a look at how authors of informational texts, such as expository texts, organize their writing and the effects that organization can have...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to summarize main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas within expository text.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Narrative for Expository Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Lesson in which students read various narrative texts which provide a context for them to learn content-area topics. Narratives allow the students to begin to understand expository texts.
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Other

English Companion: Reading Expository Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Taken from "Reading Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techmiques," the information on this website provides advice on how to read, understand, analyze, and write expository texts.
Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Guiding Students: Expository Text With Text Feature Walks

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Explains how to guide students in examining text features during a walkthrough of an expository text.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas in Informational/expository Texts

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres (including literary...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas in Informational/expository Text

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres and to support the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas in Informational/expository Text

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres and support with...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to evaluate a summary of the original text for accuracy of the main ideas, supporting details, and overall meaning.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas in Informational/expository Text

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres and support with...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text (English 6 Reading)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to summarize the main ideas and supporting details in text and understand that a summary does not include opinions.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Make Inferences in Informational/expository Texts

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Use different organizational patterns as guides for summarizing and forming an overview of different kinds of expository text while distinguishing factual claims from...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Expository Writing Sentence Variety/rhetorical Devices/transitions

For Students 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to write an expository/procedural text that uses a variety of sentence structures, rhetorical devices, and transitions.
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Cengage Learning

National Geographic: Informational Text and Young Children [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Research-based informative article on when, why and how to introduce and teach reading skills with informational texts to early-elementary students beginning as early as kindergarten.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write a Persuasive Text With a Clear Thesis

For Students 7th - 9th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to focus on a thesis in an expository text in four lessons: Introduction, Opening Statement: Your Thesis, Maintaining Your Thesis...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Sentence Structures, Rhetorical Devices, & Transitions

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The most effective expository and procedural texts contain rhetorical devices, transitional words and phrases, and a variety of sentence structures. Students will learn some...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Make Inferences in Informational/expository Text

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] By using different organizational patterns as guides, learn how to make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions while distinguishing factual claims.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Commentary on Quotations From Text in an Interpretive Response

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to include quotations from a text and commentary on those quotations. It includes a variety of practice exercises.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "History's Heroes"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes helping students appreciate historical events, enhancing students' understanding of the difference between narrative and expository text, and...

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