Expository Essays
Prompts and Planning
Commas and Conjunctions
Revising and Editing
Question Strategies
100
This is meant to hook the reader and interest him/her in reading in the composition and might include humor, a quote, or onomatopoeia.
What is an introduction
100
Most expository prompts will have two parts -- a "what" to write about and _______ it is important.
What is "why?"
100
Conjunctions are used to _____________________.
What is join two or more thoughts together into one compound subject or predicate, compound or complex sentence?
100
Checking for spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar errors
What is editing?
100
Before answering a revising/editing question, go back and ____________ and _____________ the sentence(s) in the passage.
What is underline and reread?
200
Description, Compare/Contrast, Cause/Effect, Sequence, Problem/Solution, Persuasive, and Question/Answer
What is expository text structure
200
The central idea statement must include words from _____ ___________.
What is the prompt?
200
One way to prevent a run-on sentence, is to __________ two sentences using a comma and a conjunction.
What is combine?
200
Avoid ________________ by rereading and revising your paper to get rid of words, sentences, or phrases that are said over and over again.
What is repetition?
200
After you have marked an answer for every question, be sure to neatly ______________ your answer on the answer document.
What is bubble?
300
The ending to an essay, which relates to the introduction or central idea statement, and includes a take-away, something to remember, or a zinger.
What is a conclusion
300
To ensure you've written a quality essay, you must work through the entire _____________ ____________, including brainstorming ideas, organizing your thoughts and noting details you will use, and revising, revising, revising, and editing.
What is the Writing Process?
300
Where should commas be placed in this sentence? Dad's café like many others in town closed when business was bad.
What is after café and after town?
300
Revise to include relevant and interesting Facts, Examples, Explanations, and Details in your composition.
What is FEED a paper.
300
After neatly bubbling answers on the answer document, you need to verify completeness and accuracy by completing a _____ _________ _______, comparing each answer in the test booklet with each answer on the answer document.
What is a Two Finger Check?
400
FEED an expository paper
What are facts, explanations, examples, and details
400
The better you _______ and the more you _________, the better your composition will be.
What is plan, revise?
400
True or False? A compound sentence with two different subjects requires use of a comma?
What is True?
400
This requires actually rereading your writing and making it better by such as removing sentences, adding details and examples, and clarifying the central idea statement.
What is revising?
400
Even if you think that you know the answer to a revising/editing question, you must ________________________ anyway!
What is check each answer choice?
500
The most important part of an expository essay, which includes words from the prompt and what your composition will be about.
What is a central idea statement
500
The ____________ _______ ______________ is a crucial part of your essay and includes the important words from the writing ___________ and _______ you will ________ in your paper.
What is central idea statement, prompt, what, share?
500
Correctly write a complex sentence that begins with a conjunction (such "while" or "although").
What is _____________________ ?
500
Proofread and revise your paper to be sure that all sentences do not ________ the same way.
What is begin?
500
Make a note next to, or cross out errors in each answer choice to prove to yourself why an answer is either _____________ or ______________.
What is correct or incorrect?
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