1. Styles of Writing Each genre has a specific purpose or goal.

2. Four Styles of Writing  Narrative  Descriptive  Expository  Persuasive

3. Narrative Writing  Describes an experience, event, or sequence of events in the form of a story.  Uses characters, dialogue  Has a plot with a climax and resolution Beginning Middle End

4. Descriptive Writing  Describes in great detail  Uses the five senses Taste Smell Touch Sight Hearing

5. Expository Writing  Explains something to the reader  May include directions or “how to” information  May explain why or how something was done  History books and science books and math books contain expository writing

6. Persuasive Writing  Expresses a writer’s opinion  Persuades the reader to do or believe something.  Commercials are persuasive writing  Politicians’ speeches are persuasive.  Letters to government officials or businesses may be persuasive writing

7. Prompts  Identify the style of writing with each the following prompts…

8. What kinds of things do you do to relax? Identify your favorite way to relax, and explain why its your favorite.

9. Bees make honey in their hive. Many bees spend their entire lifetime doing nothing but helping to make honey. Write a story about meeting a bee that hates honey.

10. You love the way your neighborhood looks when it’s decorated with Christmas lights. Compose a letter to your neighbors to convince them to keep their lights up all year.

11. Describe a home that would be an appropriate place for a clown to live.

12. Quick Check Quiz  1. List the four styles of writing.  2. Give an example of persuasive writing.  3.In what type of text might expository writing appear?  4. In which style of writing would one use the five senses?  5. In which style of writing would one use characters and dialogue? Write your answers to the following question on a sheet of paper.