Expository Reading and Writing

My first semester in college, I was one of those students who had a tape recorder. I had to capture every single word the professor was saying. It wasn't enough that I would take three page notes because at home when I would read them, I would realize that I had three pages of junk. The fact that I could not take proper notes stems for the very root of what this article is talking about. I wasn't able to distinguish was important about what my professor was saying. This is the same as not being about to read an excerpt and extract a main idea from supporting details. What I find about the lesson created by these teachers is that is is incredibly rich and amazingly, covers EVERYTHING you come possibly think of when it comes to expository writing. It will planned and structured. The chart of signal words and phrases that correlate with expository structures is an excellent idea and I could see it perfectly hanging in one of my future classrooms.