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How to Write a Hook: 10 Ideas for Narrative, Expository, Persuasive/Argumentative Writing
A hook is a sentence or group of sentences that will capture or “hook” your reader’s interest and lure him or her to keep reading. The hook, also called the lead, will set the tone and mood for your essay and establish A hook can be a...
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Structural Features of Text | Literary & Expository | Improve Your Reading Comprehension Skills
Recognizing text structure will help you be a better reader. Once you are familiar with the text's organizational pattern, you can make predictions as you read and form a mental map. In this lesson, we cover eight elements or structure...
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Surface Level Features of Expository Text | Improve Your Reading Comprehension
Effective readers use the characteristics of text to their advantage. Whether consciously or subconsciously, knowing how to use these cues to your advantage will help you to strategically read and engage with text at a more effective...
Eric Buffington
Expository Essay
In this lesson I outline what an expository essay is, how to organize an expository essay and give some examples of when it would be good to use this writing type. This lesson was created for my friends at learning bird. Check out more...
Jeremy Thompson
How to Plan & Write an Expository Essay
A 4th grade lesson on how to plan and write an expository essay to a prompt.