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Models for Writing Expository Text

Models for Writing Expository Text. Lynne Redman Grade 2. Common Core Standards CCRA W.2 Write informative/expository text to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

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Models for Writing Expository Text

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  1. Models for Writing Expository Text Lynne Redman Grade 2

  2. Common Core Standards CCRA W.2 Write informative/expository text to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. CCSS.ELA Literacy W.2.2 Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.

  3. Most writing that young students do is not stories, even though teachers may use that vocabulary.

  4. Non-fiction text needs to be interesting and to have style. • Model texts can show students samples of: • Organizational schemes • Captivating beginnings and memorable endings

  5. Organizational Schemes for Non-fiction text: • Natural divisions within a topic (categories) • General to specific • Logical order (time, place) • Steps in a process (sequence) • ABC order • Comparing (people, places) • Ordering (argument)

  6. Sort your buttons in any way that seems logical. • Be prepared to share your categories.

  7. The first sentence or two of a piece must let the reader know what it is about. • The first sentence is call the hook, or lead.

  8. Use your cards to write the name of 5-6 places you like to go. Remember to tell why you like that place.

  9. Sort your cards into categories. • Write the name of each category on a blank page. • When you finish, turn to a partner to share your categories.

  10. Some types of hooks, or leads, are: • Questions • Exclamations • Talking directly to your reader • A rhyme or saying • A definition • Single words

  11. Use a blank sheet of paper to write your beginning question for your piece. • WHO? • WHAT? • WHEN? • WHERE? • WHY? • HOW?

  12. Writing an ending for your piece can be the most difficult part. • Try to avoid ending too quickly and using “THE END.”

  13. Some types of endings are: • Comparison • A universal word (everyone, no one) • A question • The final step in your sequence • Exclamation • Summarize

  14. Use a blank sheet of paper to write your comparison ending for your piece.

  15. Additional information: Non-fiction Writing Strategies: Using Science Big Books as Models by Marcia S. Freeman

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