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What is an Expository Text & How to Read Them!

What is an Expository Text & How to Read Them!. What is Expository (Non-fiction) Text ?. Non-fiction (True!) Informative Analytical- A big word that means you analyze things! Descriptive Sometimes, it can be… Boring!. Expository text makes up the bulk of (most of) what adults read.

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What is an Expository Text & How to Read Them!

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  1. What is an Expository Text & How to Read Them!

  2. What is Expository (Non-fiction) Text? • Non-fiction (True!) • Informative • Analytical- A big word that means you analyze things! • Descriptive • Sometimes, it can be… • Boring!

  3. Expository text makes up the bulk of (most of) what adults read. • teachers read text books • policemen read reports and records • lawyers read legal papers • veterinarians read medical books In school, after 2nd or 3rd grade, this is also true for students! (Often the only exception is reading fiction books during SSR time).

  4. Where is it found? • Expository text can be found in many different informational resources including: • Academic websites • Textbooks • Non-fiction section of the library

  5. Where is it found? (continued) • Encyclopedias • Newspapers • Biographies • As well as any other non fiction text. If you are learning, it’s probably expository!

  6. How to read expository text Look for expository text features, or “clues,” that will help you to understand the reading material. Some features are: • Photographs • Headlines and titles • Footnotes Captions (Often appear below pictures) 1 1 A footnote appears at the bottom of a text beside a number (in order), and tends to provide background information on a subject, or provides references as to where material was gathered from.

  7. Features (Continued) • Graphs and tables • Maps Table of Contents

  8. Continued… • Bolded words • Bullets or symbols  • Glossary

  9. Features Explained • Each of these helpful features can be a useful tool in allowing the reader to understand the information in the text. For the most part, anything on the page that JUMPS OUT AT YOU or catches youreyeis a feature designed to make the expository text easier to read.

  10. Practice! Identify the Features in this Sample Text 1 1 Source for all text and the picture of Jefferson material, and to see more examples of expository text features: http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/bios/biojeff1.cfm

  11. Practice! Identify the Features in this Sample Text 1 1 Source for text, map, and photograph regarding ancient Rome, and for further examples if expository text/historical information: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/romans/the_roman_army/

  12. Review • Explain why the Thomas Jefferson biography excerpt and the historical information on the Romans is expository text. Because it’s non-fiction informational text. (It’s true!)

  13. Now let’s talk about Text Structures found in Expository texts…. There are certain elements found in expository text, each type of element makes its own demands on the reader: • Informational (description) • sequence or chronological (means time order) • compare & contrast • cause & effect, • problem & solution.

  14. Elements of Expository Text: 1.Informational (description) – The author lists characteristics, features, and examples to describe a subject. Clue words for description include for example & characteristics. Have wings use soundwaves they are mammals They fly eat insects Bats sleep in daytime hang upside down different kinds

  15. Elements of Expository Text: 2.sequence– The author lists items or eventsin numerical or chronological order. Clue words include first, second, third, next, then and finally. Almost 300 males competed in the 1896 Olympics Modern Olympics began in 1896 Olympics ended in 394 A.D. Olympics began in 276 B.C.

  16. Elements of Expository Text: 3.comparison– The author explains how two or more things are alike or different. Clue words include different, in contrast, alike, same as, or on the other hand. no snow warmer temperatures flowers baby animals Easter & 4th of July Summer and Winter seasons – sun shines sports are played snow colder temperatures no flowers blooming bears hibernate Christmas & New Years

  17. Elements of Expository Text: 4.cause & effect– The author explains one or more causesandthe resulting effect or effects. Clue words are reasons why, if, then, as a result, therefore, and because.

  18. Elements of Expository Text: 5.problem & solution– The author states a problemandlists one or more solutions for the problem. Clue words are problem is, dilemma is, puzzle is, solve, question, and answer.

  19. So to Summarize…. • Expository Non-fiction is...

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