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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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Teaching Students to Compose a Power Essay [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Power Essay, like the power paragraph, focuses on helping students understand the structure of a piece of expository writing. The "power" concept teaches students to organize their ideas according to levels of specificity and to...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Planning and Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers that students can use to plan their written pieces. Graphic organizers for all modes of writing are provided.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on transitions including transitional devices, lists of common transition words and phrases, transitions between paragraphs with examples, and separate lists of transition words for descriptive, narrative, and...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Sample Expository Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is an example of a well-written expository essay from the University of Victoria. Gives excellent tips for students, such as organization, paragraph development, and support. W.9-10.2a Intro/org/graphics
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Handouts: Writing About Science

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Information and specific tips on what scientific writing is and how to make it more precise, clear, and objective.
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Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: The Four Types of Writing Trivia Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fifteen-question quiz in which the reader identifies a type of writing for each situation: argumentation, exposition, narrative, or description. Correct answers are displayed once answers are submitted.
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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...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: To Infinity and Beyond Magazine of Planets

For Teachers 5th - 6th
This is a student led activity in which students have to accomplish the task of choosing the most entertaining way to relay written expository information. Art/self expression along with technology are utilized to develop a classroom...
Handout
Other

Kid Bibs: Effective Use of Textbook Features

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Here, parents and teachers can find tips for helping young readers understand the expository writing found in textbooks.
Website
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing persuasive, expository, and fiction texts.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing persuasive, expository, and fiction texts.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas in Informational/expository Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will expand on your ability to read texts, synthesize them, and make choices based on the information you read. Finally, you will learn how to use textual...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How to Cite Online Resources

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
After research in the Alabama Virtual Library, students will write a paragraph essay and use an online citation utility to create bibliographic citations for an online encyclopedia, an online magazine, and a print resource. Copying and...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Multi Media Hero Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using what they learn about how heroes are depicted in art, literature, and music, young scholars create their own definition of a hero, and then write an essay based on a hero they wish to research.
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EL Education

El Education: A Revitalization Report

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In 2008, the ARTWalk 2 Planning Committee in Rochester, New York invited the sixth grade students at Genesee Community Charter School to make a meaningful contribution to the expansion of public art in Rochester. A Revitalization Report...
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EL Education

El Education: Chauncie Mallen

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, created this character file (CF) as part of a Learning expedition on local scientists. As part of the expedition, students surveyed all of the fields that are considered the hard...
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EL Education

El Education: Discovering the Genesee Volume 1

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Discovering the Genesee was created by third grade students in Rochester, New York, as part of a Learning Expedition on local history. Student work was guided by four questions, which became the chapters of their book: Who were the...
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EL Education

El Education: A Child's Guide to Riverhill Farm

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a child's guide or manual designed for Riverhill Farm. These 3rd and 4th grade students were studying about watersheds and farming; they visited the farm several times and learned various aspects of farming. The guide includes an...

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