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Professional Doc
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner:workshop 4: Teaching Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
The fourth workshop [58:24] features the classrooms of two teachers: sixth-grade language arts teacher Jenny Beasley and fifth-grade teacher Jack Wilde. Both are teaching units on persuasive writing that allow students to write about...
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing Workshop: Persuasive Writing

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This site has a great unit that leads students all the way through the writing process while composing a persuasive paper. Includes a teacher guide, mini-lessons, assessment rubric, and worksheets to help out at each step of the way.
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Handout
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Grade 8: Writing a Persuasive Essay [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Provides a student model of a persuasive essay on the topic of television violence. Allows students to examine content, format, and structure and includes notes and annotations as student aids throughout.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Three Voice Important Book Passages

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
A lesson plan made for young scholars to write from various perspectives regarding the same topic. The mentor text entitled The Important Book is used, as students become more familiar with voice, point of view, persuasive techniques and...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
The goal of this activity is to understand how techniques of persuasion (including background, supporting evidence, storytelling and the call to action) are used to develop an argument for or against a topic. Students develop an...