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What is EXPOSITORY WRITING?

What is EXPOSITORY WRITING?. A Magazine. An article that informs the reader is informational expository. An Editorial Column. An editorial column that uses facts, statistics, examples, and explains why is intended to persuade the reader with supporting details. Editorial

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What is EXPOSITORY WRITING?

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  1. What is EXPOSITORY WRITING?

  2. A Magazine An article that informs the reader is informational expository

  3. An Editorial Column An editorial column that uses facts, statistics, examples, and explains why is intended to persuade the reader with supporting details Editorial A Victory for Cleaner Air, and the Law Published: April 17, 2011 The new settlement between the Environmental Protection Agency, other plaintiffs and the Tennessee Valley Authority resolving clean air violations at 11 T.V.A. coal-fired power plants is long overdue. As a result, millions of Americans will someday breathe cleaner air. The settlement will also reduce emissions that have brought acid rain damage to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. And it emphatically vindicates the Clean Air Act, which is now under assault from House Republicans.

  4. A Scientific Experiment A paper that details the steps to correctly conducting a scientific experiment is expository writing intended to communicate a process

  5. What is Expository Writing? “Expository writing is a genre characterized by information, ideas, opinions, directions, explanations, and argument – all supported by substantive details.”

  6. Two Key Ingredients: • Organization • Support

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  8. Mentor Texts • By analyzing expository texts and different types of support you can help students recognize, learn, practice, and apply meaningful kinds of supporting details. • Include stimulating non-fiction on a regular basis not only enhances the curriculum, it also presents models of well-crafted expository writing that will raise awareness in young writers

  9. STAAR Written Composition • Students will write two one-page essays (26 lines maximum) addressing different types of writing • Grade 4—personal narrative and expository • Grade 7−personal narrative (with extension) and expository • English I−literary and expository • English II−expository and persuasive • English III−persuasive and analytic • Essays will be weighted equally • No “gatekeeper” (automatic fail of the writing test for a 1) From TEA website

  10. STAAR Writing Prompts Expository, persuasive, and analytic prompts contain a stimulus and are scaffolded: Read, Think, Write, Be Sure to − Personal narrative and literary prompts contain a stimulus and are scaffolded, though less so than other prompts Analytic prompts contain a literary or informational text (approximately 425−500 words), which students must analyze From TEA website

  11. STAAR Writing Prompts—Scaffolding Read: A short synopsis of some kind or a quotation Think: The synopsis or quotation generalized and reworded Write: An even more focused rewording Be Sure to: Five bullets here (clear thesis, organizing your writing, developing it, choosing words carefully, proofreading) From TEA website

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