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Expository Essay
Expository Extras!
Revising & Editing
Revising & Editing
Test Taking Strategies
100

famous quotation, simile or metaphor, striking statement, zoom in on the senses, searing image, etc.

How to hook your reader

100
The purpose of an expository essay
To explain 
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
The resource that you can use to help with editing(spelling words correctly)?
a dictionary
100
How long do you have to complete the Writing STAAR test (expository essay and revising and editing questions)?
4 hours
200

Turn the prompt into a question. Answer the question the prompt is asking.

How to write your thesis statement.
200
You need this to move from idea to idea or paragraph to paragraph
transitions
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
Go to sleep early. Eat a hot breakfast. Get to school on time. Put electronic items in your locker. 
Things you should do to prepare for the STAAR test. 
300

1. Hook & thesis 2. Body paragraph one from reason one 3. Body paragraph two from reason two 5. Conclusion

Format of an expository essay
300
This should tie back to your introduction and restate the thesis in a new way.
Conclusion
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
Which part of the writing test should you complete first: the essay or the revising and editing?
It's up to you! 

If it were me, I would read the prompt, write my thesis, brainstorm my examples, and write an outline or draft. I would take a break and complete the multiple choice questions. Then I would revise and edit with new eyes and write my final draft in the test booklet. 

400

What your essay is all about. The roadmap of your essay. 

Thesis statement or controlling idea
400
Literary, historical, movie, song, tv show, etc., personal experience
Examples in an Expository Essay
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 Summer Olympics, most people weren't watching the athletes. Instead they were watching the small 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. 

d. He was exceptionally cute.

c. He was a national hero.
400
Read all the answer choices and carefully analyze them, especially if they look similar. Eliminate obvious detractors. Choose the best answer.
How to answer a multiple choice question.
500

Topic Sentence, Example, Explanation

The format of a body paragraph
500
By narrating, by defining, by describing, by reasoning,by giving examples, by arguing
How expository essays explain
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
500
"I believe in you and know that you will rock this test! You have prepared. You have worked hard. You are ready! It's time to shine!" 
What Mrs. Read is thinking right now!