Expository Writing

What is one type of a controlling idea?

• Topic Sentence
• Example
• Supporting Details
• Conclusion

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Expository writing is _____________?

• informational text
• fictional text

The thesis statement should guide your paragraph writing for your essay.

• true
• false

You should use a transition word to start each new body paragraph and also for the conclusion paragraph.

• false
• true

The introduction paragraph should start with a "hook" to grab the reader's attention.

• true
• false

The conclusion paragraph gives an ending and closure to the essay.

• false
• true

Which of these elements can be included in an introduction paragraph to grab the reader's attention?

• a comic strip
• questions, facts, a quote, orstatistical fact
• an entire poem

Expository text should give information that is_________.

• non-fiction
• fictional

Which one of the choices below would be the best example of expository writing?

• a fictional novel
• a science textbook

Expository means...

• to persuade

• to explain or describe something

• to read carefully

• to ask questions about a topic

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.5.4B

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.10