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Savoring Expository Writing Through PowerPoint
Heather Tietz

As soon as my fifth graders heard we would be learning PowerPoint, their fingers were itching to start typing. It was then that I realized that the dreaded spinach leaf could be hidden in the frosting of this chocolate cake. My students wouldn't even know what they were swallowing, and they'd love it!Every year our fifth grade embarks on the gigantic task of learning to research and write a multi-paragraph report on a US state. This tremendous process extends from December to March and is painfully digested at the expense of weekends and other homework assignments. By the time we teachers receive the fattened binders we try to ignore the plagiarized sentences and parent-constructed paragraphs. This year though, was going to be different. The State Report should be an excellent way to teach expository writing- and what better way, than to use our Computer Lab as a hands-on exercise in the outlining process....

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