1. Language Arts: Monday 10/15 I.N. page 47
Go to your Language Arts Folder and take all of your papers out of it. Tape your Graded Personal Narrative to I.N. page 46. Add it to your Table of Contents.
Make a list of at least 5 things you think every newspaper article should have.
What is the purpose of a newspaper article? (write a paragraph)

2. *Expository Writing (take notes on I.N. page 47)
“Let Me Explain”
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3. What is expository writing?
*Expository writing explains
or gives information about
a topic.
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4. What does “expository” mean?
*“Expository” means “to explain.”
*Expository writing explains ideas so that readers can understand them.
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5. What are some *examples of expository writing?
*reports and essays
*newspaper and magazine articles
*instructions and “how-to” essays
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6. What is an *expository essay?
*a multi-paragraph piece of writing
*gives information or explains how to do something
*has steps put in the right order
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7. What are the *parts of an expository essay?
*beginning - names the topic
*middle - explains the steps in the process
*end - gives final thoughts
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8. What are *time order words?
*They help writers show when something happens.
*They help the reader follow the steps.
*Some examples include: first, second, next, then, after that, and finally.
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9. Invitation to Read Read the following expository essay.
See if you can follow the steps in the process.
Can you find all the time order words?
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10. How to Find the Cafeteria
It is easy to get from the front doors of the school to the lunchroom. First, you go down the main hallway. Then, you turn left at the library. Walk past the auditorium and turn right. There are double doors at the end of this hallway. Walk through and you’ve found the cafeteria!
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11. Expository Text
Got Structure?
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12. Do you remember learning the five W’s?
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13. The Reporter’s Formula
Good reporters ask questions.
Good writers anticipate and answer the readers’ questions.
Expository texts answers the five W’s.
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14. The Reporter’s Formula (Five W’s)
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
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15. Big Dig Tunnel Trouble Continues
Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts ordered the closure of the eastbound lanes of the Ted Williams tunnel on Thursday after inspections revealed that ceiling bolts designed to hold the 12-ton cement ceiling tiles had slipped.
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16. Who?
Governor Mitt Romney
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17. ordered the closure of the eastbound lanes
What?
ordered the closure of the eastbound lanes
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18. When?
Thursday
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19. Where? The eastbound lanes of the Ted Williams tunnel
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20. Why?
inspections revealed that ceiling bolts designed to hold the 12-ton cement ceiling tiles had slipped.
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21. Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts
Who?
Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts
ordered the closure of the eastbound
lanes of the Ted Williams tunnel on
Thursday after inspections revealed that
ceiling bolts designed to hold the 12-ton
cement ceiling tiles had slipped.
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
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22. Let’s Practice: Write out the 5 W’s with space in between.
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23. Homework: Find a newspaper article; Answers the Five W’s
Find an article from a newspaper. Cut it out. (It can be from an online newspaper source, but you must print it)
Read the article, and write the answer to each of the five W’s on I.N. page 48.
Tape the article on top of your answers on I.N. page 48.
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