Expository Text

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Using Expository Texts in the Classroom Every day in college I have read an expository text, or so it has seemed, and I don’t think that is very far off from the truth. These subject-centered pieces offer little in the way of dialogue and creativity, and are more about educating the reader on a specific subject. They present information based on facts and research and can be works such as textbooks, journal articles, anthologies, and non-fiction books (Grand Canyon University, 2010). Expository texts are very important to students to be able to disseminate and analyze and understand, and also they need to be able to write expository texts of their own. Expository texts come in many different forms including, but not limited to, compare-contrast pieces, cause-effect papers, descriptions, and problem-solutions works, all presented with the mind-set to instruct the reader in some way (Grand …show more content…

Specific strategies that are used to help students identify certain structures in the text and to help identify patterns in the material they are using is a great advantage to using expository text in the classroom (Grand Canyon University, 2010). These types of texts are a good tool to help the teacher supplement their teachings by giving a concrete text to read and reference. According to Lapp, Fisher, and Grant (2008), using expository text to gradually “release the responsibility” of learning on the students, it “enabled her students to take control of their learning” (pp. 372). As students progress through school, they will need to be able to learn independently and using certain strategies with expository text will help students reach that goal. Using these types of texts early on will only help students later in their schooling, as they will have to continually read and analyze them throughout

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