For now, I’m posting several expository writing pieces that my students have written to various topics. Some of these were written as their choice of 3 writing prompts essays about the society, and others were written on the students’ last writing benchmark. The benchmark prompt was the prompt that our students were given last year on their STAAR test (our official standardized test–for those of you who don’t live in Texas). Some of you have asked when we started expository writing–well, we began way back in October. We flip back and forth throughout the year between the two types of writing. We spend an average of 4-5 weeks on narrative, and then move on to expository essays about life lessons, and so on. Now that we are getting closer and closer to test time, we are only spending a couple of weeks on each. There are even days/weeks where we do both. I’ll be posting soon about an activity called “Genre Switch” where kids write for just a small amount of time in both genres. These samples are simply in alphabetical order. They are not grouped by topic or by awesomeness. You can pick and choose which ones you want to use, or you can print them all and use all of them with your kiddos and talk about what was great and what needs improvement. You could even use them with some revising and editing!
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