PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Saving Crystal River
Explore the effects that an invasive species can have on the environment. In this interactive lesson, students learn how Lyngbya, a destructive form of algae, is creating environmental problems for the plants and wildlife in the Crystal...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What Edison Teaches Us About Success
In this interactive activity, students examine Thomas Edison's character traits and how they contributed to his becoming one of the greatest inventors in history. In this interactive activity, students watch videos to gather evidence...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Buster's Egyptian Adventure
Young scholars join Buster Baxter on a ancient Egypt, in this geography lesson. Students learn about Cairo, ancient Egypt, the pyramids, the Nile River, and relevant vocabulary terms. Then young scholars write about what they've learned...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Think, Write, Read: Expository Writing
While this lesson's main focus will be centered on expository writing, it will also integrate reading, computer, and organizational skills. After reading the novel, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, students will write an expository...
Other
Core Knowledge: Growing Up Charlotte: A Charlotte's Web Look at Life Cycle [Pdf]
Tremendous resource containing six lessons that use Charlotte's Web to teach various life cycles. Includes useful handouts in the appendix.
CPALMS
Cpalms: What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this instructional activity, students will use What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page to identify the main topic and key details using the illustrations and text....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Effective Intro & Conclusion & Variety of Sentence Structures
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on the introduction which establishes the context for the information that will form the body of the essay, connecting the conclusion to the introduction,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Generate Ideas and Questions
This lesson will focus on the writing you do in high school. Whether you write expository and persuasive essays or short stories, your first steps are to determine and define your audience. After that, you will begin to generate ideas...
TES Global
Blendspace: Expository Writing Using Transitions
A seven-part learning module on using transitions in expository writing. Lessons include text, images, a video, and a writing prompt.
TES Global
Blendspace: Expository Writing
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, slides, a video, and a quiz about expository writing, text structures, conjunctive adverbs, and more.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Project Exposition
This lesson engages students in expository writing. Four graphic organizers are provided to assist students in the expository writing process.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Analysis of to Kill a Mockingbird
Used as a follow-up lesson after reading the novel and viewing the entire video of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, students will analyze the opening title credits which show the cigar box and its contents which Jem and Scout have found in the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Get to Know Your Library Media Center
This lesson will provide young scholars with an orientation to the Library Media Center and the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The students will access the Alabama Virtual Library and will participate in a library scavenger hunt as...
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Super Summary [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and then complete a graphic organizer to help them write a summary. Materials are included.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Use of Stylistic a Rhetorical Details
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to learn to comment on writing composed by writers who are aesthetic types, writers who use language to bring images to our minds as we read....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn about two rhetorical devices that are writing performance enhancers, analogy and antithesis. You will also learn about transitional words and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Commentary on Quotations From Text in an Interpretive Response
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to include quotations from a text and commentary on those quotations. It includes a variety of practice exercises.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "History's Heroes"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes helping students appreciate historical events, enhancing students' understanding of the difference between narrative and expository text, and...
CPALMS
Hopping Hippo Needs Help
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be given a set of criteria. To help the character Hopping Hippo for her TV show, students will use the criteria to select shoes. Guided reading,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How Disruptions Affect Animal Populations
Students explore the effects that ecosystem disruptions can have on animal populations. They learn about the disruptions that have driven three species-the Madagascar fish eagle, the Iberian lynx, and the rowi kiwi, to the brink of...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust the organization of your essay to make it appropriate for different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Multi Media Hero Analysis
Using what they learn about how heroes are depicted in art, literature, and music, students create their own definition of a hero, and then write an essay based on a hero they wish to research.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: To Infinity and Beyond Magazine of Planets
This is a student led activity in which students have to accomplish the task of choosing the most entertaining way to relay written expository information. Art/self expression along with technology are utilized to develop a classroom...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Gift for Mom and Dad
Following a reading of O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi," students write an expository essay based on the connotative definition of "gift." The essay is then presented as a holiday gift. The lesson can be adapted to a variety of occasions...