Chapter 8. Expository Writing

Children use expository writing to learn and to share information. (Tomkins, 2008) Expository writing is the process of writing to communicate information to an audience. But Students will not be able to write perfect text, expository or otherwise, until they have had extensive experience with it. Expository writing requires many drafts and revisions, and students should not be expected to write a perfect essay the first time. Teacher task is to encourage the children. As teachers assess expository writing, as well as other forms of writing, it is important to have a view of the long term process of writing and student’s overall progress. It is also for teachers to recognize the widely accepted writing conventions which all English writers must embrace, and to differentiate these from individual preferences which we each possess

According to Kyoung Chun Kim, Too often, teachers assume that children are more comfortable writing stories instead of nonfiction, but researchers have provided compelling evidence that children even those in kindergarten and first grade, can write expository text (Tomkins, 2008) I agree with him, everyone has the capacity to write, writing can be taught, and teachers can help students become better writers. Teacher should focus on getting the students to think more creatively about their writing.

References  

Tompkins, G.E. (2008). Teaching writing: Balancing process and product. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

O’Brien, M. (2010). How to teach expository writing for the second grade. eHow, Inc. Retrieved from

http://www.ehow.com/how_4460949_teach-expository-writing-second-grade.html