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WRITING WORKSHOP
Expository Writing
Learning Targets
• Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
• Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
• With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
• Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
• Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Writing an Expository Essay
The purpose of an expository essay is to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes. Expository essays are some of the most common types of essays you will write throughout your academic career. They are often written to define or describe a subject, to provide directions for how to do something, to describe problems and offer solutions, to show cause and effect, or to explore how subjects are similar and different.
To complete this workshop on effective expository writing, you will work with your teacher and your classmates to construct two model expository essays. You will then use these models to write your own expository essay.
ACTIVITY 1
Discovering the Elements of an Expository Essay
Before Reading
1. Quickwrite: Think of a time when you had to explain or describe something. What ideas or information did you need to communicate? Who was your audience, and what was your purpose?
LEARNING STRATEGIES Quickwrite, Brainstorming, Think-Pair-Share, Discussion Groups, Sharing and Responding, Marking the Text, Graphic Organizer, Outlining, Drafting, Adding, Deleting, Rearranging, Substituting, Revising Prior Work, Self- Editing/Peer-Editing
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
An expository essay makes an assertion and supports it with details, reasons, textual evidence, and commentary.
Writing Workshop 3
• Expository Writing 1
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