Expository Writing

What is the purpose of expository writing?

• Tell a story or opinion

• Inform or explain

Organize your essay into what?

• One large essay.

• Paragraphs with one main idea.

• Different ideas in the same paragraph.

How do you know when a new paragraph begins?

• A new idea starts.

• Indenting the first line of the paragraph.

• Skip a line

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What are the three parts of the essay?

• Beginning, middle, end

• Introduction, body paragraph, conclusion.