Expository Essay
Gets your reader's attention.
What is a hook or lead?
This is the author's purpose in an expository essay.
What is to inform or explain?
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Your brain is responsible for controlling the muscles that you move intentional.
What is change intentional to intentionally?
This is a good resource to use with independent revising and editing.
What is a dictionary?
What is a friend?
What is the duration of each day of the STAAR test?
What is 4 hours?
Your thesis is developed as an answer to a question usually found here.
What is the prompt?
These words are often used to connect sentences and paragraphs in expository writing.
What are transition words?
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It's main functions are to control your balance and to enable your muscles to work together.
What change It's to Its?
Revise this sentence:
The young boy led his schoolmates in songs because rescuers worked to free them from the wreckage. Which word should replace because?
What is while?
Name two ways you can take brain breaks during the test.
What are any of these and more?:
Roll around your neck. Close your eyes for one minute. Roll your shoulders around. Take a quick nap. Shake out your fingers. Take a break. Time yourself on and off. Stretch.
This is the most effective order to use in organizing expository writing.
What is:
1. Hook & thesis
2. Body paragraph one
3. Body paragraph two
4. Conclusion
This is personification used for a contrasting transition.
What is "on the other hand"?
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Your brain helps you breath, keeps your heart beating, and directs your stomach to digest food.
What is change breath to breathe?
One sentence in this paragraph should be deleted.
How could a child be so brave? Why had a little boy risked his own life to save his fellow students? Where was the courageous boy's mother? When reporters questioned the young boy, he answered, "I was the hall monitor. It was my job to look after my classmates."
What is where was the courageous boy's mother?
You will need these three items on the day of the STAAR.
What are a pencil, a highlighter, and a book to read?
This is also known as a controlling idea.
What is a thesis?
The most important kind of example to use in an expository essay.
What is a personal experience?
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The brainstem connects your brain to your spinal cord. Which connects most of the nerves in your body.
What is the brainstem connects your brain to your spinal cord, which connects most of the nerves in your body?
A sentence should be added to the end of this paragraph to strengthen the introduction.
During the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics, most people weren't watching the athletes. Instead they were watching the small boy who was walking next to a famous Chinese basketball player. The boy's entrance brought enthusiastic cheers. That's because nine-year-old Lin Hao was more than just a kid. a. He was a great kid. b. He was in school. c. He was a national hero. d. He was exceptionally cute.
What is c? He was a national hero.
These three items are prohibited on the day of STAAR.
What are laptops, smart phones and smart watches?
These are used in Pre-Writing to generate ideas during brainstorming.
What are listing, webbing and freewriting?
How should you conclude your expository essay?
What is revisit the thesis, summarize your main points and give a take away opinion?
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With all its intricacies, the human brain is a sensative and delicate organ.
What is change sensative to sensitive?
(1) Just a few months earlier, Hao had been at school on a typical day. (2) Without warning, the ground beneath him began to tremble. (3) Hao's school was at the very heart of an earthquake. (4) Windows shattered, and shelves toppled over. (5) Finally the whole building collapsed. (6) Hao somehow managed to climb out of the rubble and save himself. (7) He risked his life to pull two of his classmates to safety.
The author would like to add the following sentence to this paragraph. Then, despite his own injuries, Hao went back into the ruins. Where is the BEST place to insert this sentence? a. After sentence 1 b. After sentence 2 c. After sentence 4 d. After sentence 6
What is d? After sentence 6
You should do these things on the morning of your test.
What are Eat a healthy breakfast, be on time to school, bring your water bottle, pencil, highlighter and book, and be ready to show your best work!