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
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
- Organization: Goal 1
- Content and Development: Goal 2
- Content and Development: Goal 2 and Revision plan
- 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
Examples of Source-based 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