This makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for children to learn the information. This LearningTip article will focus on general strategies which parents, teachers, and homeschoolers can use to help children experience success with expository style writing. Include a wide variety of expository tradebooks in your classroom library. A list of excellent tradebooks follows the Tips sections. Read information to children.
Many teachers routinely read excellent children's fiction to their students.
It is very important for them to continue to do this. In addition, a few minutes spent reading interesting expository writing to children in relation to instructional units, specific lessons, etc. can motivate independent reading, build vocabulary, and strengthen the child's understanding of how expository text communicates information. Use tradebooks to supplement textbooks. Tradebooks often provide well-written, interesting selections with beautiful photographs and illustrations. These selections can reinforce and enrich the students' understanding of the content beyond what a textbook can provide.