BLANK EXPOSITORY ESSAY GRAPHIC ORGANIZER Revised 2021
Students explore the nature and structure of expository texts that focus on cause and effect and apply what they learned using graphic organizers and writing paragraphs to outline cause-and-effect relationships.
Expository writing is an increasingly important skill for elementary, middle, and high school students to master. This interactive graphic organizer helps students develop an outline that includes an introductory statement, main ideas they want to discuss or describe, supporting details, and a conclusion that summarizes the main ideas. The tool offers multiple ways to navigate information including a graphic in the upper right-hand corner that allows students to move around the map without having to work in a linear fashion. The finished map can be saved, e-mailed, or printed.
The structure and format of the graphic organizers explained below will work wonders for student confidence and abilities in the expository writing arena.
Free writing-expository graphic organizers
An expository graphic organizer expects a student to probe an idea, evaluate the supporting details, propose the idea and present it with related arguments in brevity and clarity.
Includes guidelines step by step on how to develop an informational essay giving students a strong foundation for organizing a 5 paragraph writing research piece.