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Expository Text Features

This document discusses the features of expository text. Expository text is non-fiction, informative text that can be analytical or descriptive. It can be found in sources like textbooks, encyclopedias, newspapers, biographies and academic websites. Key features of expository text include photographs, headlines, titles, captions, footnotes, graphs, tables, maps, glossaries, bolded words and bullets. The document encourages identifying these features in sample expository texts and explains why biographies and historical texts are considered expository.

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Expository Text Features

This document discusses the features of expository text. Expository text is non-fiction, informative text that can be analytical or descriptive. It can be found in sources like textbooks, encyclopedias, newspapers, biographies and academic websites. Key features of expository text include photographs, headlines, titles, captions, footnotes, graphs, tables, maps, glossaries, bolded words and bullets. The document encourages identifying these features in sample expository texts and explains why biographies and historical texts are considered expository.

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12/19/2016 Expository 

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WHAT IS EXPOSITORY TEXT?Non­fiction (True!)InformativeAnalyticalDescriptiveIt can be…
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Expository Text Features
1. 1. Expository Text Features
2. 2. WHAT IS EXPOSITORY TEXT?Non­fiction (True!)InformativeAnalyticalDescriptiveIt can be…
boringExpository text can range from many categories including history,science, sports, biographies, and
any other non­fiction source. By theend of this lesson, all of you should be able to explain expository
textand identify the various features that help when reading expository text.
3. 3. WHERE IS IT FOUND?Expository text can be found in many different informational resources
including:Academic websites TextbooksAlmanacs
4. 4. WHERE IS IT FOUND? (CONTINUED)Encyclopedias NewspapersBiographies As well as any other
non fiction text. If you are learning, it’s probably expository!
5. 5. HOW TO READ EXPOSITORY TEXTLook for expository text features, or “clues,” that will help you
to understand thereading material. Some features are: PhotographsHeadlines and titles Captions (Often
appear below pictures) 1 Footnotes 1 A footnote appears at the bottom of a text beside a number (in
order), and tends to provide background information on a subject, or provides references as to where
material was gathere
6. 6. FEATURES (CONTINUED) Graphs and tablesMaps Table of Contents
7. 7. CONTINUED…Bolded words • Bullets or symbols  Glossary
8. 8. FEATURES EXPLAINED
9. 9. PRACTICE! IDENTIFY THE FEATURES IN 1 THIS SAMPLE TEXT1 Source for all text and the
picture of Jefferson material, and to see more examples of expository text features:
http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/bios/biojeff1.cfm
10. 10. PRACTICE! IDENTIFY THE FEATURES IN THIS SAMPLE TEXT 11 Source for text, map, and
boringExpository text can range from ...
photograph regarding ancient Rome, and for further examples if expository text/historical information:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/romans/the_roman_army/
11. 11. REVIEWExplain why the Thomas Jefferson biography excerpt and the historical information on the
Romans is expository text. Because it’s non­fiction informational text. (It’s true!)

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