Articles related to "Expository Essay"

Before helping students practice writing an expository essay, teachers introduce this genre with creative brainstorming techniques that promote critical thinking skills.

Sexton's poem, "Courage," states a claim and then offers examples that support that claim, somewhat like an expository essay.

The organization of paragraphs in an essay creates flow and can help guide readers to increased understanding and comprehension of a topic.

Expository writing may be less than creative, but is incredibly important and useful. This assignment allows a little fun into the formulaic world of expository writing.

Teaching students to write expository essays begins with a lesson on general and specific topics, a discussion of organizational strategies, and a group thesis activity.

The task of writing a school paper often creates a series of challenges for students. Students often struggle with not understanding their paper's assignment sheet.

Here are several examples of thesis statements for expository, persuasive, and literary analysis essays. Weak and strong thesis statements are compared to help students.

Bright, advanced or gifted and talented students learn to actively process their compositions in both their visual and kinesthetic realms as groundwork for writing.

In this article, bright, advanced or gifted and talented students learn to add meaning to the way they develop webs using Bloom's Taxonomy in this advanced method.

Dialogue journals provide students the opportunity to improve their writing skills in a meaningful exchange with the teacher.

Gifted, advanced and talented students learn to apply a thesis statement to create a detailed outline in this final article in the Process-Writing series.

Since the conclusion paragraph is the last part of the essay readers will digest, writers must make a strong summary statement to leave a memorable impression.

Teachers discover how to apply the Hands-On Process-Writing technique across all disciplines.

Are you struggling to motivivate your high school students to write their next essay? Solving this problem may be easier than you think. Here are simple suggestions.

Allowing gifted students to study and work together, even if they are clustered together or spend only a few periods per week in a pullout class, can make a difference.

In this introductory article, the question is how do bright, advanced or gifted and talented students make sense of issues that probably seem completely unrelated.

Bright, advanced or gifted and talented students learn to move from a thesis statement to develop an outline using various learning styles.

Advanced students learn to understand that their ideas, beliefs, insights and hunches can be stated in a non-threatening way by writing a thoughtful thesis statement.

Bright, advanced or gifted and talented students learn to make mental interconnections as a metacognitive skill as they discover contextual relationships in prewriting.