EXPOSITORY 101
INTRODUCTIONS
BODY AND CONCLUSION
VOCABULARY
RUBRICS
100
The expository essay is in this genre.
What is non-fiction?
100
The three main parts of an introduction.
What is the hook, overview, and thesis statement? (HOT)
100
The topic of your body paragraph should be stated in this.
What is the thesis statement?
100
The writer's reason for writing.
What is purpose?
100
The highest essay score on the STAAR test.
What is four?
200
There are three to five sentences in this.
What is a paragraph?
200
The graphic outline we use for our thesis.
What is chicken foot?
200
The first sentence of the body paragraph is usually called this.
What is a topic sentence?
200
The position, or vantage point, from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
200
The essay should be written in this form.
What is expository?
300
A resource to help with editing and spelling.
What is a dictionary or thesaurus?
300
The purpose of the hook.
What is to grab the reader's attention or hook the reader in?
300
The five main portions of a body paragraph.
What is the restate, answer, detail, analysis, and restate and wrap-up? (RADAR)
300
The arrangement of ideas, incidents, or details in a paragraph, essay, or speech.
What is the organization?
300
The ideas in the essay should be this.
What is thoughtful and holds the reader's interest?
400
The three main parts of an expository prompt.
What are READ, THINK, and WRITE?
400
Name four types of hooks.
What is a question, startling statement, definition, fact, or quotation?
400
This is when you include information that does not belong.
What is extraneous information?
400
The attitude of a writer towards a subject or audience.
What is tone?
400
Name five essay moves that might score you a one.
Answers may vary.
500
Name five examples of transition words or phrases.
Answers may vary.
500
This is your main topic and shows what direction you are going to take in writing.
What is the controlling idea?
500
The details you can pull from for the body paragraph.
What is LMNOP? (Literature, movies/music, news, own experience, past)
500
Occurs when two independent clauses are joined without a connecting word or semicolon.
What is a run-on sentence?
500
The three main scored categories on the rubric.
What is organization, development of ideas, and conventions or use of language?
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