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Expository Text

Expository Text. Got Structure?. Copying permitted. Do you remember learning the five W’s?. AKA—The Reporter’s Formula. Copying permitted. The Reporter’s Formula. Good reporters ask questions. Good writers anticipate and answer the readers’ questions.

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Expository Text

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  1. Expository Text Got Structure? Copying permitted

  2. Do you remember learning the five W’s? AKA—The Reporter’s Formula Copying permitted

  3. The Reporter’s Formula • Good reporters ask questions. • Good writers anticipate and answer the readers’ questions. • Expository texts answers the five W’s. Copying permitted

  4. The Reporter’s Formula (Five W’s) • Who? • What? • When? • Where? • Why? Copying permitted

  5. Big Dig Tunnel Trouble Continues Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts ordered the closure of the eastbound lanes of the Ted Williams tunnel on Thursday after inspections revealed that ceiling bolts designed to hold the 12-ton cement ceiling tiles had slipped. Copying permitted

  6. Who? Governor Mitt Romney Copying permitted

  7. What? ordered the closure of the eastbound lanes Copying permitted

  8. When? Thursday Copying permitted

  9. Where? The eastbound lanes of the Ted Williams tunnel Copying permitted

  10. Why? inspections revealed that ceiling bolts designed to hold the 12-ton cement ceiling tiles had slipped. Copying permitted

  11. Who? Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts ordered the closure of the eastbound lanes of the Ted Williams tunnel on Thursday after inspections revealed that ceiling bolts designed to hold the 12-ton cement ceiling tiles had slipped. What? Where? When? Why? Copying permitted

  12. Invitation to Read an Article, Searching Out the Answers to the Five W’s • Find an article from the newspaper. • Write the answer to each of the five W’s. • Ask yourself if all the information is there? • Talk with a partner about their article and see if you notice any other similarities or differences in each other’s expository texts. Copying permitted

  13. Invitation to Write Using the Reporter’s Formula • Think about an event that has happened to you or that you have observed in the last few weeks? • Prewrite by answering the five W’s. • Write an article about it, imitating newspaper style. • Share your report with a partner and have them answer the five W’s with your article. Copying permitted

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