Expository Text Teaching Resources :: 409

ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring How Section Headings Support Understanding

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

Teaching learners to pay attention to headings and titles as they read? Here you'll find a practical application for using an expository text to apply the concept of using headings. Geared toward older elementary students, but lesson...

Get Free Access See Review

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.

Get Free Access See Review

Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Super Summary [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and then complete a graphic organizer to help them write a summary. Materials are included.

Get Free Access See Review

Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write an Expository And/or Procedural Text (English 6 Writing)

For Students 6th Standards

You will learn how to write an expository/procedural text with a variety of sentence structures, rhetorical devices, transitions, appropriate facts, and details.

Get Free Access See Review

Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write an Expository And/or Procedural Text

For Students 5th - 7th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to write an expository/procedural text that synthesizes ideas from several sources.

Get Free Access See Review

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.

Get Free Access See Review

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...

Get Free Access See Review

Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Projected Paragraphs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and highlight the most important details. Materials are included. [PDF]

Get Free Access See Review

Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Keys to the Main Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text a complete a graphic organizer to identify the main ideas and supporting details. Materials are included.

Get Free Access See Review

Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Structure Sort [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read short texts and sort them according to structure: cause and effect, problem and solution, question and answer, compare and contrast, description, and sequence. Materials are included.

Get Free Access See Review

Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Feature Find

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students look through a book to find various text features including: a table of contents, sequence and format, charts/graphs/maps, diagrams/graphics/illustrations, print variations, an index, and a glossary....

Get Free Access See Review

ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Playing With Genre Through Newspapers and Short Stories

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

Contains plans for three lessons that ask students to compare narrative writing (short stories) to expository writing (news articles) in order to understand what makes each genre unique. In addition to objectives and standards, this...

Get Free Access See Review

CPALMS

Cpalms: Compare/contrast Life Cycle Texts

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn to compare and contrast texts about life cycles using a Venn diagram. Then, using the Venn diagram, students will write an expository paragraph including an introductory sentence,...

Get Free Access See Review

ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Thieves to Preview Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

Contains plans for three lessons that introduce a nonfiction prereading strategy with the acronym THIEVES, which stands for Title, Headings, Introduction, Every first sentence, Visuals and vocabulary, End Questions, and Summary. In...

Get Free Access See Review

Other

Seeing the World in Print Through Nonfiction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Unit plan containing five lessons designed for tenth graders. They center around reading and writing nonfiction, and they teach skills such as identifying the features of nonfiction and writing expository texts. All are aligned to...

Get Free Access See Review

Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Expository & Persuasive Texts: Writing Expository Essays

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

In an expository essay, a type of informational text, the writer clarifies or explains something by using facts, details, and examples in a clear and concise way. To write an effective expository essay, students need a basic...

Get Free Access See Review

Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 10th

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay that uses embedded quotations to provide evidence in your response to an expository or a literary text.

Get Free Access See Review

Better Lesson

Better Lesson: I See the Weather

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Young scholars will answer text-dependent questions for the expository text "Seasons and Weather". While text-dependent questions have been around for a long time, Common Core asks teachers to focus on them during reading. This...

Get Free Access See Review

Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Picture Walk and Partner Talk

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Students will participate in a picture walk through the expository text "Seasons and Weather". The purpose of the picture walk is to prepare the students for reading the story and gives them practice in using picture clues to make...

Get Free Access See Review

TES Global

Blendspace: Expository Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, slides, a video, and a quiz about expository writing, text structures, conjunctive adverbs, and more.

Get Free Access See Review

Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.

Get Free Access See Review