Expository Essay
Expository Extras!
Revising & Editing 1
Revising & Editing 2
Test Taking Strategies
100
How can you hook your reader
Grab the readers attention by using a question, a quote, or imagery.
100
What is the purpose of an expository essay?
To explain a topic
100

What change, if any, should be made to this sentence:

Your brain is responsible for controlling the muscles that you move intentional.

a. Add a comma before for

b. Change controlling to controling

c. Change intentional to intentionally

d. This sentence should not be changed.

c. Change intentional to intentionally
100
What resource can you use to help with editing or spelling words correctly?
a dictionary
100
What is the duration of each day of the STAAR test?
4 hours
200
How do you write your thesis?
Opinion + because reason 1 + and reason 2
200
what words can you use to transition from paragrapgh to paragrapgh.
Transitional words
200

What change, if any, should be made to this sentence:

It's main functions are to control your balance and to enable your muscles to work together.

a. Change It's to Its

b. Change are to is

c. Change balance to balence

d. No change needs to be made in this sentence.

a. Change It's to Its
200

The word because does not appropriately connect the two clauses in the following sentence:

The young boy led his schoolmates in songs because rescuers worked to free them from the wreckage.

Which word should replace because?

a. if

b. while

c. although

d. where

b. while
200
Name a few ways you can take brain breaks during the test.
Roll around your neck. Roll your shoulders around. (**Cannot stand up!) Take deep and quiet breathes Nothing should be done over 30 seconds
300
What are the 4 paragraphs of an expository essay?

1. Introduction= Hook, overview, and thesis

2. Body Paragraph 1= Claim, evidence, reasoning

3. Body Paragraph 2=Claim, evidence, reasoning

4. Conclusion= Restate the thesis, restate the overview, kick the reader into action

300
Name some transition words you might use.
First, second, third, finally, another, therefore, however, furthermore, for example....
300

What change, if any, should be made to this sentence:

Your brain helps you breath, keeps your heart beating, and directs your stomach to digest food.

a. Change breath to breathe

b. Change beating to beeting

c. Change directs to directing

d. This sentence should not be changed.

a. Change breath to breathe
300

Which 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."

Where was the courageous boy's mother?
300
On day one of the writing STAAR, what can you do to make sure you complete the test
1. Be aware of the time 2. Don't waste time
400
how is the controlling idea a roadmap?
It tells the reader the order of your paper and what the paragraphs will be about.
400
What can be used for evidence in an expository essay?
A personal experience, a historical event, books, movies and TV, songs.
400

What is the correct way to write these two sentences?

The brain stem connects your brain to your spinal cord. Which connects to most of the nerves in your body.

a. The brain stem connects your brain to your spinal cord, this connects to most of the nerves in your body.

b. Connecting your brain to your spinal cord and then to most of the nerves in your body.

c. Connecting your brain to your spinal cord. It connects to most of the nerves in your body.

d. The brain stem connects your brain to your spinal cord, which connects to most of the nerves in your body.

d. The brain stem connects your brain to your spinal cord, which connects to most of the nerves in your body.
400

Which sentence could be added to the end of this paragraph to strengthen the introduction to this paper?

During the opening ceremonies of the 2008 boy who was walking next to the 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. Summer Olympics, most people weren't watching the athletes. Instead they were watching the small

d. He was exceptionally cute.

c. He was a national hero.
400
What should you do the night before your test(s)?
Pack a water bottle, relax, and get a good night's sleep, go to bed by 8:30.
500
Explain what each paragraph in an expository does.
Introduction hooks the reader and tell them what the paper is about. Each body paragraph restates the claim and gives evidence to convince the reader. the conclusion wraps up the essay and restated the intro.
500
How should you conclude your expository essay?
By paraphrasing the thesis/controlling idea, and overview, and giving the reader a deep thought, questions, or task.
500

What change, if any, needs to be made to this sentence?

With all its intricacies, the human brain is a sensative and delicate organ.

a. Change intricacies to intracacies

b. Change sensative to sensitive

c. Change delicate to delacate

d. No changes are needed.

b. Change sensative to sensitive
500

(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

d. After sentence 6
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What should you do on the morning of your test(s)?
Eat a healthly breakfast, be on time to school, bring your water bottle and highlighter, and be ready to show your awesome-ness!
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