to Expository - Part I

• falls under the umbrella of nonfiction• gives information about a topic• tells facts that can be looked-up

or proven• tells about real events or real people• is divided into sections with

headings• may include photos with captions, maps,

diagrams and illustrations to explain the facts

Expository text is nonfiction reading material. The author’s purpose, or reason for writing, is to inform or explain something to the reading audience.

Some examples are: • textbooks, • encyclopedias, • scientific books/journals, • atlases, • directions, • guides, • biographies, • newspapers

• descriptive – tells about something

• sequential – series or steps, items or events in numerical or chronological order

• problem/solution – problem attempted solutions, results; question and answer format

• compare/contrast – similarities and differences between two or more things

• cause/effect – reasons why something happens or exists

features in text to help locate

information (title, table of contents, illustrations,

photographs, bold text, italicized texts, charts, graphs)

pictures

•is a true story of a person’s life, written by another person

•usually tells events in time order

•is a true story of a person’s life, written by that person (also known as a memoir)

•usually tells events in time order

an account of one’s personal life and

experiences