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Do you remember learning the five W's? . Copying permitted. . . AKA
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1. Expository Text Got Structure?
2. Do you remember learning the five Ws?
3. The Reporters Formula Good reporters ask questions.
Good writers anticipate and answer the readers questions.
Expository texts answers the five Ws.
4. The Reporters Formula (Five Ws) Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
5. Big Dig Tunnel Trouble Continues Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts ordered the closure of the eastbound lanes of the Ted Williams tunnel on Thursday after inspections revealed that ceiling bolts designed to hold the 12-ton cement ceiling tiles had slipped.
6. Who? Governor Mitt Romney
7. What? ordered the closure of the eastbound lanes
8. When? Thursday
9. Where? The eastbound lanes of the Ted Williams tunnel
10. Why? inspections revealed that ceiling bolts designed to hold the 12-ton cement ceiling tiles had slipped.
11. Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts
ordered the closure of the eastbound
lanes of the Ted Williams tunnel on
Thursday after inspections revealed that
ceiling bolts designed to hold the 12-ton
cement ceiling tiles had slipped.
12. Invitation to Read an Article, Searching Out the Answers to the Five Ws Find an article from the newspaper.
Write the answer to each of the five Ws.
Ask yourself if all the information is there?
Talk with a partner about their article and see if you notice any other similarities or differences in each others expository texts.
13. Invitation to Write Using the Reporters Formula Think about an event that has happened to you or that you have observed in the last few weeks?
Prewrite by answering the five Ws.
Write an article about it, imitating newspaper style.
Share your report with a partner and have them answer the five Ws with your article.