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WRITING WORKSHOP
Response to Expository Text
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.
• Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• 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 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Writing a Response to an Expository Text
You will work with your teacher and classmates to construct two model essays. You will use these models to write your own essay. When writing a response to an expository text, be sure your response
• Presents effective introductory and concluding paragraphs
• Analyzes an expository text and provides sustained evidence from the text using
quotations
• Contains a clearly stated purpose or controlling idea
• Is logically organized, contains appropriate facts and details, and includes no
extraneous information or inconsistencies
• Accurately synthesizes ideas from several sources
• Uses a variety of rhetorical devices
• Uses a variety of sentence structures and transitions to link paragraphs
Review the Scoring Guide to understand the specific requirements of this writing activity.
ACTIVITY 1
Discovering Elements of a Multi-Paragraph Response to an Expository Text
Before Reading
1. Quickwrite: What do you know about writing an essay to respond to an expository text? How does a response to an expository text differ from other essays you may have written in the past?
The main goal of responding to an expository text is to demonstrate understanding of the expository text. The writer makes a claim about a text and supports it with textual evidence to show an insightful response. The essay makes connections among the main ideas of the text, the reader’s viewpoint, and the author’s style.
LEARNING STRATEGIES 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 Expository text makes an assertion and supports
it with details, reasons, textual evidence, and commentary.
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