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Curated OER

Write Your Own Cultural Connections

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students write a cultural narrative. For this multicultural writing lesson, students create an expository narrative to teach others about their lives. Students complete the narrative and use a buddy editing strategy to revise their papers.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Cause and Effect: Light Clusters and Geography

For Students 3rd - 6th
After viewing a map of lights at night over a variety of geographic formations, young topographers connect the location of light clusters to geographic features that encourage human settlement. They list causes and effects of large...
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Curated OER

Day in the Life of a Homeless Person

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners examine a day from the point of view of a homeless person. They listen to and discuss two stories, identify ways to help homeless people, watch a Reading Rainbow video, and write an essay.
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Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition

Creative Writing Prompts For Every Season and Month

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Winter, spring, summer, and fall! Every season is covered in a 14-page list of writing prompts. Included are story starters, reflection questions, poetry topics, and more.
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Curated OER

Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders have fun using descriptive words in an expository format to describe a food that they hate. They utilize a planning worksheet that's imbedded in this plan before they begin their drafts.
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Curated OER

Critic's Choice

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read three to five genres and choose one as a favorite. They write an essay persuading the class to read the genre. This lesson serves as a nice introduction to different styles of literature.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using "Four-Square"

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a four-square graphic organizer to help a third grade writer organize thoughts and clarify thinking to write a simple expository paragraph, a workshop summary paragraph.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Our Solar System

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explain the classification of planets according to various criteria. They create charts illustrating comparative data.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Venerable Inventors

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students discuss important historic inventors and read their biographical information.  For this world history lesson, students describe Alexander Bell, Thomas Edison, and Guglielmo Marconi using vocabulary terms used in their text....
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Informative Writing for the Winter Season

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Informational writing lessons can be creative and motivating for students.
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Museum of Tolerance

Oral History Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Oral history has brought a multitude of lessons, stories, and factoids to our current knowledge of the past. Let us continue to use oral history traditions through a lesson that encourages pupils to discover and appreciate where they...
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Museum of Tolerance

Artifact Research Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Artifacts give us the privilege of learning about the past, may it be family, culture, or traditions. Here, class members learn about their family's past with the help of an artifact, or family heirloom. Once an artifact is discovered,...
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Museum of Tolerance

Music Evokes Memories and Emotions

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Dim the lights, take a deep breath, and press play to explore the emotions and memories that music elicits. Class members begin using relaxation techniques designed to create a positive listening experience. As music plays, learners...
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Curated OER

Indian Story Bag

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students use an object to tell an interesting story from their lives. They write and present a short story about an interesting episode from their life and gather objects in a story bag, which illustrates their story to the class.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Expository Essay

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to videos, websites, and texts on writing expository essays.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Expository Essay: State Trip

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
After researching a place/event of interest in Alabama, students write a five-paragraph essay. Students include maps and written directions to the location, describe activities and/or events associated with this location, include in this...
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Rubric
Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: 4th Grade Expository Writing Rubric [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
A rubric to use when writing and evaluating a 4th-grade expository essay. Essays can receive anywhere from one to four points in each of the following areas: Organization/Progression, Development of Ideas, and Use of Language/Conventions.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Eat: An Expository Slideshow Presentation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students will write a three-paragraph essay explaining the steps necessary to follow a recipe and then present and serve the recipe to their classmates.
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Unit Plan
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Trailblazing Introductions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial focuses on the introduction for an expository essay or research paper. It states the purpose of an introduction, what should be included, and ways to begin.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Expository vs Narrative Intros

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives examples of expository and narrative introductions. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.a
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: Compare/contrast Essay [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This PDF lesson focuses on writing a comparison/contrast essay, which is a great format for helping young scholars think deeply about two ideas or concepts with multiple similarities and differences. This type of essay has four-parts -1)...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: A Guide to Expository Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help guide the teacher and students through an expository writing prompt. Develop the essay directly on the flipchart and model writing for your class.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.a
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Chicago Changes [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
"Chicago Changes" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about how Chicago changed from a small town to a large city. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes: determining...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: Informational Text: Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This unit is designed to teach students about research writing. The lessons follow the format of Writer's Workshop. Many of the lessons provide a formula for students to follow while constructing their essays to ensure struggling readers...

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