Expository Writing Passages

TRUE/FALSE: The INTRODUCTION should begin with a HOOK to draw in the reader's' attention.

• True

• False

Expository/Informative writing uses what type of passages?

• Informational/ Nonfiction

• Fiction

• Poems

• Dramas/Plays

The BODY paragraphs of an expository essay are similar to what previously learned type of writing?

• Nonfiction summary

• Fiction summary

• ACE extended responses

What is Expository Writing?

• A statement that summarizes what you will explain about your topic.

• An opening statement that attempts to grab the reader's attention so that they want to read on.

• Writing that explains or describes something.

• Writing that argues a topic or persuades.

Expository writing is _____________?

• informational text

• fictional text

What kind of writing is expository writing?

• Clever and edgy

• Critical of its subject matter

• The kind of writing where you position facts and observations to let them speak for themselves

• The kind of writing where you present opinion and commentary

SYNONYM for EXPOSITORY WRITING is ...

• Narrative Writing

• Argumentative Writing

• Informative Writing

CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: A writer should include what information in there CITATION-C portion of each BODY PARAGRAPH?

• Title and author of passage

• Sentence starter

• Quotation Marks around text evidence

• An explanation

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

A student is allowed to use only ONE source when finding text evidence for an expository paper.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

TRUE/FALSE: The CONCLUSION paragraph gives the reader an ENDING to the paper.

• True

• False