Workshop 3
Expository & Persuasive Writing
  • Cost: $750
  • Time: Two 1.5 hour sessions

    Participants: (Note: Up to 20 in a session)

  • Classroom teachers (Grades 3-6)
  • Special Education Teachers
  • Language Arts Specialists
  • Administrators

    Note: This is an abbreviated and condensed version of both Workshops 1 and 2 for more experience teachers of writing. Two teacher workbooks are provided. Some school districts have elected to send two different sets of teachers to Workshop 3 on the different days, depending on curriculum dictates.

    Session 1

  • Overview
  • 3 kinds of writing (narrative, expository, persuasive)
  • How to tell the difference: purpose, audience, framework
  • Expository Framework: introduction, body, conclusion
  • Main ideas & details
  • Prompts & Rubrics

    Session 2

  • Overview
  • Expository Framework Review
  • Persuasive Framework
  • Reasons & Rationale
  • PreWriting Strategies
  • Arguments & Evidence
  • Transitions
  • Rubrics