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EXPOSITORY WRITING
EXPLAINING A PROCESS
6th grade English
Nov 10-14

Objectives
Understand the goal of expository writing.
¨ Understanding the content and form of expository writing. ¨ Plan, Draft, Revise, Edit, and Publish a How-To
Essay.
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The Expository Six
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Informative- Inform: The author informs, reports, explains.
Informative- Inform and Tell Why: The author informs, reports, explains and tells why.
Procedural- How to= Product: The author lists steps in numerical or chronological order.
Masked- Ways to = Goal: The author gives ways of doing something abstract. The ways do not have to be given in any specific order.
Classificatory- Classify: The author explains two sides of one item.
Classificatory-Compare & Contrast: The author explians how two items are alike and different.

The Expository Six Examples
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Informative- Inform: Explain all about your favorite sport.
Informative-Inform & Tell Why: Tell about a sport and explain why it is popular.
Procedural- How to = Product: Tell a friend how to hit a baseball. Masked- Ways to= Goal: Explain to a friend how to have good sportsmanship.
Classificatory- Classify: Write about the good and bad sides of playing a team sport.
Classificatory- Compare & Contrast: Compare and contrast volleyball to softball.

Explaining a Process Page 165
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How do you make spaghetti?
How do you find the secret passage to the next level of your favorite video game?
How do you skateboard or snowboard?
The answers to questions like these may involve several steps. When you explain how to do or make something in an essay, you are doing expository writing.
In this chapter, you will write an expository essay. Your how-to essay should tell readers exactly what materials they will need to what steps they should follow. You will do your best writing if you choose a topic you care about-something you do well or enjoy doing.

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