How-To

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In this explanatory essay, a third grader tells how to recycle jars and cans.
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This third-grade explanatory essay explains how to bake a cake.
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In this explanatory essay, a third-grade writer explains how to feed a dog.
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In this explanatory essay, a third-grade writer explains how to plant a garden.
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This example of third-grade explanatory writing explains how to make a kite.
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In this explanatory paragraph, a third grader explains how to pull a tooth.
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This middle school how-to essay is a good example of explanatory writing.
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This third-grade how-to essay attempts to explain folding an origami box.
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This third-grade how-to paragraph provides directions to get to a local park.
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Editing Process Essays

After making big changes to improve your process essay, you need to make little changes (editing) to correct any remaining errors. You'll look for problems with sentences, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, usage, and spelling. The following activities will help you edit your writing.

Editing Command Sentences

Commands usually start with verbs.

Clean the cage. Change the bedding. Fill the bottle.

What about a subject? Commands have implied subjects: you.

(You) Clean the cage. (You) Change the bedding. (You) Fill the bottle.

Watch the video "Command Sentences."

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