PPT-Strategies for Teaching Text Features and Text Structure With Expository Text

Kim Hamer Understanding Yourself As a Reader How do you use text features to aid your comprehension as you read What strategies do you use to help you understand these text features Do you employ the same strategies when you read different types of expository texts. What do you think?. 1. Expository Essay – 55 minutes. Read the information in the box below.. In 1955 medical researcher Jonas Salk introduced an effective polio vaccine. At the time polio was considered the biggest threat to public health, yet Salk refused to profit by patenting the vaccine because he was more concerned with preventing disease than with personal gain. . Purpose: To Inform. Why is this important to me?. You will be taking an End of Course Exam with (1) expository essays.. You must pass the STAAR exam to graduate. It is one of your graduation requirements.. t. hinking ahead. s. ummer school. How will we . prioritize standards . for summer school?. BIG Question. Failed Backward. Level I. Did NOT Make Progress. Failed Forward. Level I. Met/. Exceded. Progress. Expository Writing. Ninth grade EOC writing test: . . expository essay + field test expository essay. Write expository (analytical) texts to . communicate ideas and information . to specific audiences for specific purposes. . Please use a section of your composition book to label and define academic vocabulary; you will be expected to use this vocabulary frequently throughout your discussions and writing.. Expository. Expository text exposes you to facts: plain and simple.. SHOWDOWN!!!. Created by Ms. . Lelis. Warm up!. In your. . learning partners. , . brainstorm together and write down a T-chart of Narrative and Expository text features. NO NOTES!. . You will have 3 minutes. Then we will relay race. An expository essay is. a writing that conveys . information or . explains and proves something . Introduction to Expository Writing. In . order to classify as expository, an essay needs:.  . a . thesis. Examples of Text Features. With Definitions. Explanations for How Text Features Help Readers. Understanding. Nonfiction . Text. What are text features?. Authors include text features to help the reader better understand what they have read.. (Think about how it is different than a persuasive essay…). Expository Essay . Elaboration Strategies. Introductions, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusions. Expository Intros. Quotations. Scenarios/Anecdotes. What is an Expository Text?. Expository text is . used t. o . inform. the reader, to . offer new information. , or to . persuade. the reader. . Expository text is . organized. in ways to . arrange and connect ideas . Writing the Expository Essay. Exp. ository = . Exp. lain . Expository . writing explains . what you think (and why you think that way) . in a clear and complete way. . You are not telling a story or trying to persuade your reader.. Expository (also called informative). Persuasive (also called argumentive). Narrative. Expository Writing.  Exposition writing "explains" or "informs.“. Most of the writing we do is expository.. When we do . An expository essay is. a writing that conveys . information or . explains and proves something . Introduction to Expository Writing. In . order to classify as expository, an essay needs:.  . a . thesis. . SYFTET. Göteborgs universitet ska skapa en modern, lättanvänd och . effektiv webbmiljö med fokus på användarnas förväntningar.. 1. ETT UNIVERSITET – EN GEMENSAM WEBB. Innehåll som är intressant för de prioriterade målgrupperna samlas på ett ställe till exempel:.