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Writing Genres: Our Informative and Expository In-service
lessons, resources, and ideas from one of the NNWP's teacher workshops
For Fall of 2009, Northern Nevada Writing Project Co-Director, Carol Gebhardt, is designing a new workshop for teachers that focuses on the expository and informative genres. Why a class specifically on expository writing? Well, there's big changes coming to Nevada. Our eighth grade writing test, which has been traditionally narrative in nature, will be changing to an expository prompt in 2011. The rubrics will change, and most of our sixth through eighth grade teachers will need to "bone up" on expository practice as we serve to better prepare our students. Carol's new workshop in 2009 will bring a small group of energetic teachers together to create new resources and lessons that will help our teachers prepare for the changes and, hopefully, embrace them. Each participant in Carol's workshop will receive a copy of Gretchen Bernabei's wonderful book, Reviving The Essay: How To Teach Structure Without Formula. As part of Carol's workshop, participants will use one of the lessons from the book and provide student samples that we can share in future sessions of the class. Participants will also be asked to create an original resource or a lesson for teaching expository writing, and the best of those lessons and resources will be posted at this page for anyone to find and use. Want to participate in this developing new page? If you have a favorite original lesson or resource for teaching expository writing to your students that you would be willing to let us post here, we will send you one of the NNWP Print Publications in exchange for us being allowed to feature it. Contact us at webmaster@writingfix.com for details or to summarize an idea that you'd be willing to send us. Take a look at the lessons and resources we feature below to see the type of ideas we're seeking. |
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Expository/Informative Lessons Featured at WritingFix and Shared in our Inservice Class: |
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Lesson: Pros, Cons, and Hooks
Focus Trait: Organization Lesson Author: Penny Sanchez, Northern Nevada elementary teacher Expository...How so? Students create a four-part essay, examining the pros and cons of a job (past, present, or future) they have researched. |
Lesson: What's Your Fifth Element? Focus Trait: Organization Lesson Author: Carol Lubet, Northern Nevada middle school teacher Expository...How so? Students create an essay where three solid reasons are discussed in order to convince the audience of an item's importance to the world. |
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Click on the lesson's title or the book image to read an overview and to access the entire lesson and its resources, including student samples and graphic organizers.
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Lesson: This I Believe...Oceans
Lesson Author: Yvette Deighton, Northern Nevada high school teacher Expository...How so? Students create an essay (in the form of a this i believe speech) after researching environmental issues related to oceans. This lesson could be used with other topics of research besides oceans. |
Lesson Author: Abby Olde, Northern Nevada middle school teacher Expository...How so? Students create a five-paragraph essay (based on a persuasive argument) about an injustice in the world. |
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Click on the lesson's title or the image to read an overview and to access the entire lesson and its resources, including student samples and graphic organizers.
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