Like the other genre chapters Tompkins does a great job really distilling the genre down into laymen terms. So much so that I feel I can use her explanation when explaining this genre to my 9th grade students. I also really liked how she defined the expository text structures. I have explicitly taught sequence, comparison, and cause and effect but had never considered description or problem and solution a genre I should provide direct instruction for. However Tompkins made a case for having students learn to write in these text structures as well. Also teaching students about these text structures will not only enhance their writing but their literacy and comprehension skills in this genre as well. The techniques/strategies for how to intro these genres were helpful and many I will include for my strategy resource file due this week.
I really liked the information she provided regarding assessing expository writing. She is obviously a proponent of UBD and helps walk the instructor through the steps that should be taken to create a
complete assessment of the writing genre including quality prompts (but does not really provide guidance for how to do this which confirms that this is a good topic for my lit review), creating checklists for students, rubrics, and conferencing.
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