Contains plans for nine lessons that ask students to create multigenre zines for popular culture figures that include letter, persuasive, narrative, acrostic poetry, comic, and biography/autobiography writing. To accomplish this,...

Links to 12 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.1a: Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.

Links to 37 lessons that focus on skills within third grade reading standard W.3.1.

Links to 11 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.1d: Provide a concluding statement or section.

Links to 27 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.1b: Provide reasons that support the opinion.

This third-fifth grade lesson focuses on students choosing a product to sell, determining their target audience, and creating a PowerPoint presentation to sell their product.

This lesson plan uses "Emily's Runaway Imagination" by Beverly Cleary in conjunction with writing a persuasive letter. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

Contains plans for four lessons that teach about the fallacies used in advertising such as bandwagon appeal, hasty generalizations, red herrings, emotional appeals, and more. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...

In this lesson plan, Roald Dahl's book The Witches is used as a mentor text. Students will attempt to save themselves and the other children. Students will analyze real population statistics from world-wide and details from the story to...

A four-part learning module with links to images, a website, and a video explaining how to write an argumentative piece.

A five-part learning module with links to websites, videos, and a text about writing an argumentative text.

A lesson plan made for students 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 the...

Students will write for a specific purpose in this cross-curricular instructional activity regarding our nation's landmarks and symbols.

In this lesson, students examine travel brochures to learn about persuasive writing. They then create a travel brochure themselves, giving three strong reasons that a person should come and visit their location. Once the brochure is...

During this lesson plan, students will use knowledge they have learned about weather instruments to create a catalog advertisement. Students will use descriptive writing to advertise the use of the weather instrument. They will also use...

Inspired by Barry Lane's book 51 Wacky We-Search Reports, in this cross-curricular lesson young scholars learn how to summarize properly.

For this extensive lesson, students will learn to identify issues of importance, form their opinions, and support those opinions with evidence and reason. They will also learn how to state their feelings in a persuasive manner.

In this instructional activity students will visit different websites in order to decide the best mode of transportation from their home town to New York City. Students will use internet links during the instructional activity to gather...

This site is extremely informative for teaching children the value of saving money. "You will write a persuasive letter telling why people use savings bonds as a way to save their money."

At the end of this lesson, students will reflect on and express concepts and ideas associated with unfamiliar images and art styles. They will increase visual awareness and appreciation for a variety of styles, subject matter, and...

What are advertisers really selling? Are there hidden messages in ads? In this activity, young scholars explore the concept of persuasive advertising and evaluate ads directed at young consumers. A timely activity that would generate...

A post-assessment at the end of a unit on global atmospheric change. Students write persuasive letters about an issue related to it, e.g., the greenhouse effect or ozone loss. The letters encourage the recipient to protect the atmosphere...