Informative Writing - Complete Unit for Expository Explanatory Essay Writing
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Informative writing. Expository writing. Informational writing. Explanatory writing. No matter what you call it, this type of writing is a critical skill for high school and middle school students, but one with which they often struggle.
This resource provides everything you need to teach your high school and advanced middle school students how to write an effective informative or expository essay. From the introduction, body paragraphs, and MLA citations, to transitions, conclusion, and everything in between, this resource provides step-by-step, paragraph-by-paragraph lessons and activities that will take you and your secondary astudents through the entire process of planning, drafting and revising an effective informative or expository essay.
THIS INFORMATIVE - EXPOSITORY - WRITING UNIT INCLUDES:
• 78- SLIDE FULLY EDITABLE POWERPOINT that walks students through every step of writing an informative essay. It is provided as both a single presentation but also as seven individually scaffolded lessons so that your students can master each step along the way. These lessons include:
- LESSON 1: Introduction to Informative Writing & Pre-Test
- LESSON 2: Developing the Thesis & Plan
- LESSON 3: Drafting the Informative Essay Introduction
- LESSON 4: Writing the Body Paragraphs
- LESSON 5: Drafting the Conclusion
- LESSON 6: Don’t Forget! (Other Important Considerations for an Informative Essay)
- LESSON 7: Peer Review and Revision
• STUDENT ACTIVITIES & HANDOUTS that encourage active engagement and enable students to practice each step of the informative essay writing process. These include:
- Guided Notes for easy-note-taking for each informative writing lesson
- Scaffolded Writing Activities for each lesson
- Sample Informative or Expository Essay for Pre-test and Analysis
- Two Informative Essay Prompt Options for student writing assignment, each with links to four related texts
- Informative Essay Planner Graphic Organizer
- Informative Essay Template--that guides paragraph-by-paragraph, sentence-by-sentence through the writing process
- Self and Peer Evaluation Checklist
- Informative Writing Rubric
Over the years, I have used many strategies to teach my students informative writing. This year, I used the scaffolded approach and materials in this resource, and the results were the best I have seen in all my years of teaching.
I hope your young writers find the lessons engaging, and that the resource helps to further develop their writing skills.
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