Planning/Organizing

Analyzing an Informative Prompt

Informative Expository Outline

Planning your Informative Essay

Cluster Web
K-W-L Chart
Venn Diagram-3 Topics
Focus Checklist-Analyzing a Task before you Write
T Chart

Informative/Expository Checklist

Rubrics

Informative/Expository 6-pt Rubrics (Holistic and Trait)
Informative/Expository 4-pt Rubrics (Holistic and Trait)

Informative/Expository  6-pt  Rubric (Student Version)

Informative/Expository 4-pt Rubric (Student Version)


MY Tutor Informative Expository Feedback
Peer Review Guidelines: Informative/Expository

Informative Writing Roadmaps

  1. Organization: Goal 1
  2. Content and Development: Goal 2
  3. Content and Development: Goal 2 and Revision plan
  4.  Content and Development: Goal 2 and  Organization: Goals 1 & 3

Drafting/ Revising/ Editing

Compare and Contrast-Developing the Body
Thesis Builder
Developing Informative Content
Research and References
Revision Plan Guidelines


Working with Resources

In-text Citation

Examples of Source-based Evidence

Types of Evidence

Informative/Expository Prompt Catalogs

 The updated prompt catalogs are available. To view online, please apply search filters in step 1 of MY Access! assignment setup to locate all informative/expository prompts.  Keywords such as "multisource" will filter to display all prompts that require students to view/read one or more sources(text, video, quotes...).**


Upper Elementary IE Catalog
Middle School IE Prompt Catalog
High School IE Prompt Catalog

Higher Education IE Prompt Catalog

Informative/Expository Writer's Models

Elementary Informative Models 
Elementary Text based Informational Models

Middle School Informative Models

Middle School Text-based Informational Models
High School Informative Models

High School Text-based Informative Models (Bullying,Effects of Emotion on Behavior,Effects of Television Viewing on Young People,The Challenges and Uses of Native American Languages,The Poster Boys of World War II)

High School-Speeches Discussing the Environment



Informative/Informational Lesson Plans

MS: Family Traditions
ES: Visit to the Rain Forest
MS: Rock Climbing
HS: Effects of TV on Young Viewers
ES: Favorite Person
MS: Admirable Women in History
HS Advice to a Candidate