Classroom teaching prospectus and classroom model: Maths written answers (page 2) Read both pages of the handout. Tip: Use the instructions on page 2 of the handout to model and teach students how to write math answers.
Developing Clear and Meaningful Content Area Writing Tasks
Four Tips for Developing Airtight Writing Tasks
Develop your report by explaining each of the following points in one or more paragraphs: purpose, leadership, structure, and components. About 20% of your report should describe the process and provide some background information on the technology of cloning.
General Prewriting Guidelines for Essays
The thesis or central/controlling idea teaches readers something new or challenges an idea they have. Teach students to ask themselves if they can support the thesis or controlling idea with evidence.
The Whole Family Under One Roof?
Rosenfeld, an associate professor of sociology at Stanford University, is the author of "The Age of Independence: Interracial Unions, Same-Sex Unions, and the Changing American Family." By 2020 they will need help with disabilities and the most reasonable helpers will be extended family members who live nearby.
Authentic Writing Purposes
Mathematical Written Responses
Handouts
Teaching Expository and Persuasive Texts Gateway Resource TEPT0002
Teaching Expository and Persuasive Texts
GATEWAY RESOURCE ID: TEPT0002
Writing Expository Text Summaries
Materials and Activities by Section
Expository Summary Elements
Expository Text Structures
Guidelines for Writing Expository Summaries
Why is it important to teach students how to identify text structure and complete a corresponding graphic organizer before they begin writing their summaries. How do you plan to use these resources to teach students to summarize expository text in your content area.
Elements of an Expository Text Summary
Expository Text Summary Mini-Chart
Introducing the Elements of Expository Text Summaries
Sample Expository Text Structures
Chemical pollutants harm marine animals by accumulating in the body tissues while they feed and are passed on through the mother's milk. Most affected are those that are found along coastal stretches and feed on other animals in the food chain that may also have been affected by the chemical pollution. Noise pollution in the form of underwater explosions from military sonars or seismic tests can travel more than 100 kilometers.
In addition, some explosions have been documented to cause bleeding in the lungs and sinuses, illness or possibly even death of the marine animal. Perhaps the most documented damage of noise pollution is the disruption of the sonar capabilities of marine animals. Although noise and chemical pollution are very different, they are similar in nature, both harming the health and well-being of whales and dolphins.
The differences between noise pollution and chemical pollution are great, but they have similar effects on these marine animals.
Common Text Structures
A variation of this pattern is the question-and-answer format, where the author asks a question and then answers it.
Common Text Structures: Student Version
Guidelines for Writing Expository Text Summaries
Sample Lesson: Writing an Expository Summary
Reading and Identifying Text Structure Opening
Who wants to share what they are thinking about sample text and text structure. The writer recounts the oil spills by date, starting with the earliest and ending with the most recent. Student: The first paragraph includes the text "three oil spills in Asia" and the second paragraph says.
I need to include six places to record information for each of the oil spills in the text. I drew six boxes connected by arrows to represent the chronological order of the six oil spills. Teacher: I will write the important details for the first one, and then you can do the rest with a partner.
Now it's your turn to fill in the important details for each of the oil spills discussed in the article.
Writing a Summary Topic Sentence
Teacher: In the first box, I will write when it happens: "January 7, 1997." Then I'll write where the spill happened: "Japan." Next, I will write who or what was responsible: "a Russian tanker". Then I will write how much oil was spilled: "5,200 tons of heavy oil." And the result was that "oil flowed onto beaches and threatened shellfish beds."
Recording Main Ideas in the Body of the Summary Instruction
Expository Text Summary Revision Guide
Teaching Expository and Persuasive Texts Gateway Resource TEPT0003
GATEWAY RESOURCE ID: TEPT0003 Writing Expository Essays
Writing Essays
Expository Essay Elements
Determine two or three elaborative essay topics that your students can clarify or explain using facts, details, and examples. Tip: Use a mentor expository text and this tool to model and teach your students how to analyze and identify how writers design the various expository elements in a text. Include opportunities for students to practice incorporating the targeted elements into their own expository essays.
Writing an Introductory Paragraph
General Guidelines for Drafting Essays
In the body of the essay, authors develop ideas that focus on the topic and thesis or central/. Meaningful transitions help make logical connections between ideas, sentences, and paragraphs in an essay. Meaningful transitions and strong connections between sentences increase the flow of the essay by clearly showing the relationships between ideas.
Transitions meaning "contrast" but alternatively Transitions meaning "demonstrate" as a result, so therefore Transitions meaning "show relationships in time" first, second, third, finally, then Transitions meaning "give an example" for example , for example Transitions meaning “summarize, conclude” finally, in conclusion End of essay: preparing a conclusion. Stretching out the conclusion until you hit the page limit results in irrelevant nonsense that only weakens the essay. If the essay is not long enough, go back and develop the content further by elaborating on the main points.
Clichés (i.e. old metaphors and tired phrasing such as "Finally...") usually make the essay sound unoriginal.
Expository Essay Elements
- Clear, concise, and defined thesis statement
- Specific supporting details
- Clearly organized structure
- Strong introduction
- Strong conclusion
- Purposeful and precise word choice
- Varied sentence structure
Analysis of evidence and central ideas in which the author integrates his own ideas, values, beliefs and assumptions. Writers should choose the structure best suited for a thoughtful and engaging explanation of the topic. The introduction should show why the writer's ideas are worth considering and provide a brief overview of the topic.
Because this is the part of the essay that will make the most immediate impression on the reader, it must be effective and logical. This type of ending is good for dark and abstract topics where the details make the reader lose sight of the main point. This type of conclusion reminds your readers of the big picture by answering the following questions: Why does my topic matter?
Effective word choice reflects a keen awareness of expository purpose and maintains an appropriate tone for purpose and audience.
Expository Essay Elements Mini-Chart
Solidarity and Support
Model Lesson: Analyzing Expository Essays Tool
The author could also draw the reader in with an anecdote that might outline the family situation. The author uses each paragraph to approach a different element of the larger theme of multigenerational living. List some supporting details and explain whether they are effective in supporting the author's thesis.
Although the author's organization makes the essay fairly easy to read, she does not use many transitional words or phrases. The conclusion is effective in summarizing her argument and projecting it into the future when the author writes it. The author uses strong and powerful words to explain why she believes that multigenerational living arrangements are beneficial.
What aspects of the author's writing style do you plan to incorporate into your next essay?
Analyzing Expository Essays Tool
Specific Supporting Details Do all the body texts have a logical connection to the thesis.
Writing an Introductory Paragraph for an Expository Essay
Teaching Expository and Persuasive Texts Gateway Resource TEPT0004
GATEWAY RESOURCE ID: TEPT0004 Writing Persuasive Essays
Persuasive Essay Elements
Choose a mentor persuasive text that will be a strong model for introducing and teaching the elements of persuasive essays.
Determining Purpose and Audience
Noting Reasons and Researching Evidential Support
In your class journal, write the title of this text and explain how it relates to your curriculum. Classroom Teacher Handout: Sample Lesson: Teaching Counterpoints in Persuasive Writing - Read the sample lesson on the handout. Reread Step 2 of the Noting Reasons and Examining Evidence handout, which describes a procedure for organizing information, including counterpoints, in persuasive writing.
Teaching Journal Questions: How often do you incorporate persuasive essays into your content area instruction.
Persuasive Essay Elements
Clear, concise, and defined thesis
Strong introduction
Well-developed argument with strong evidential support
The organizing structure of the essay must clearly reflect the writer's position and ensure that all ideas (pros and cons) are strongly related to the position and the topic. By maintaining this focus throughout the persuasive essay, the writer is able to create an argument that is unified and coherent. As a result, the audience is more likely to remember the most compelling and important point the writer made in the essay.
Instead, they should synthesize the information from the body of the essay – restate why the topic is important, review the key points, and/or. The writer's choice of words in a persuasive essay should be reasonable and forceful, but also objective. Effective word choice reflects a keen awareness of the persuasive purpose and maintains a tone appropriate to the purpose and audience.
Expository essays are improved when the writer uses purposeful sentences that vary in length and structure.
Persuasive Essay Elements Mini-Chart
Analyzing Persuasive Writing Tool
What type of conclusion does the author use (summary, connection to the beginning, larger context, or call to action). Purposeful and accurate word choice Are the author's tone and choice of words effective and appropriate for the audience. What aspects of the author's writing style do you plan to incorporate into your next persuasive piece?
Differences Between Expository and Persuasive Essays
Writing Persuasively: Purpose + Audience = Word Choice
Ask yourself: What type of word choice (language, vocabulary, and sentence structure) will most effectively convey this tone and my point of view or opinion to the audience.
Noting Reasons and Researching Evidential Support
Complete the Reasons and Evidential Support Chart 1. Record the topic or issue you will address
Reasons and Evidential Support Chart
Sample Lesson
Teaching Counterpoints in Persuasive Writing
I would argue that the costs of bike lanes and paths are worth the money and that they are not too expensive. Yes, bike lanes and paths cost money, but bikes cause less wear and tear on the roads, so less is spent on road repairs.”. Yes, bike lanes and trails cost money, but bike lanes increase tourism, and tourism money could help pay for the trails.”.
Yes, bike lanes and paths cost money, but bike safety has no price - it outweighs the cost.”. Yes, cycle lanes and paths are expensive to build, but over time they are actually cheaper for the city.”. When you look at the long-term costs of roads for cars compared to lanes for bikes, bike lanes cost less money.”.
Yes, bike paths are expensive to build, but over time they actually become cheaper for the city.”