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• Expository texts have purposes as varied as the authors who write them. They can be
instructional, informational, persuasive, satirical, humorous, highly opinionated, and just
downright false. Having students set a purpose for reading will help them identify new ideas
and develop critical thinking skills that will enable them to identify the purpose of different
types of writing.

• What do I think I will learn?

• When readers make predictions about texts before they begin reading, they are actively
engaged and more likely to revise predictions as they discover new facts and information.

• What types of texts will be useful?

• Encourage students to make connections across content areas and identify resources
that might be useful for a given subject. Familiarize them with a wide variety of print and
electronic resources to support comprehensive research.

• What is the best reading strategy

• Effective and efficient readers use a variety of strategies for different purposes. In
addition to critical reading, a student might use techniques known
as skimming and scanning to review a wide variety of information quickly.

During Reading: Asking probing questions during reading enables students to compare and generalize
the information presented, identify main ideas and supporting details in text, revise predictions, and
continually clarify meaning as they read.

Question Purpose Example

Who? Encourages readers to analyze Who is speaking?
important details about the author and
intention of text.
Who is the intended
audience?

Who are they writing
about?

What? Provides information about the What is the author’s
author’s purpose (to persuade, to purpose?
entertain, to inform) and helps
students identify the main idea and
supporting details, as well as What is the subject or
vocabulary, idiomatic phrases, and main idea?
figurative language that might be
unfamiliar.
What does this word or
phrase mean?

Enables students to continually Why is it significant?
Why evaluate details and identify point of
view to differentiate between fact and