LESSON FOUR: Writing Expository Paragraphs
LESSON DESCRIPTION
Students write a paragraph with a main idea and supporting details.
GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS
W3C Students will write expository text with a main idea and supporting details.
LESSON MATERIALS
§ Sources of Literature
o Arthur’s Pet Business by Marc Brown or a similar book about caring for a pet
§ Supplies
o Pencils
o Paper
o Dictionary
§ Handouts provided
§ Words to know
o graphic organizer
o expository writing
o main idea
o supporting details
o topic sentence
o concluding sentence
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT Assessment
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
1. Discuss, “How many of you have a pet? Do you care for your pet? What do you do to care for your pet?” Read Arthur’s Pet Business by Marc Brown or a similar story addressing pets to the students.
2. Discuss the main idea and details of the story, Arthur’s Pet Business.
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Questions for Students
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What did Arthur do? What kind of problems did Arthur have? What things did Arthur do to care for the pets? |
3. Teacher defines expository paragraph and models how to complete a Pre-Writing graphic organizer. Students look at samples of a well-written expository paragraph on the handout and discuss its components.
4. Students use the Pre-Writing graphic organizer to plan an expository paragraph addressing the topic of caring for a pet. The organizer contains a topic sentence and at least three unique supporting ideas with elaboration about caring for a pet, and a summary/concluding sentence. Students write a paragraph using information from the Pre-Writing graphic organizer.
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Questions for Students
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Does the topic sentence give the main idea of the paragraph? Do you have three supporting ideas to develop your topic? Do you use additional details or example for elaboration of each idea? Is your summary/concluding sentence effective? Does your paragraph contain components needed for quality as shown by the scoring guide? |