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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write a Persuasive Text With a Clear Thesis

For Students 7th - 8th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write a persuasive text that includes a clear thesis with a position.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational & Persuasive Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will read informational texts and identify varying perspectives in different arguments on the same topic. You will also analyze the reasoning and the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write a Persuasive Text That Supports a Position

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn to write a persuasive text that responds to the views of others by using evidence that differentiates between fact and opinion to support your viewpoint.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write a Persuasive Text That Supports a Position

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students about writing a persuasive text to support a position in four mini lessons: Introduction; Just the Facts, Ma'am. Kung Fu Fighting:...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write a Persuasive Text With a Clear Thesis

For Students 7th - 9th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to focus on a thesis in an expository text in four lessons: Introduction, Opening Statement: Your Thesis, Maintaining Your Thesis...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational & Persuasive Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will read informational texts and identify varying perspectives in different arguments on the same topic. You will also analyze the reasoning and the...
Professional Doc
Cengage Learning

National Geographic: Informational Text and Young Children [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Research-based informative article on when, why and how to introduce and teach reading skills with informational texts to early-elementary students beginning as early as kindergarten.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational/persuasive Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Explain shifts in perspectives in the same argument and make decisions about support used in those arguments.
Professional Doc
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing Expository Text Summaries

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This resource presents instructional practices for writing summaries of expository text in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies classes.
Activity
BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you tell if a text is descriptive, informative, instructional or persuasive? This BBC Skillswise tutorial teaches you how with a factsheet, worksheet, quiz, and game.
Handout
CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Argument, Bias, and Persuasion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Collection of 43 Grade-Leveled texts (6-12)on the topic Argument, Bias, and Persuasion. Have students track arguments through texts as they examine logical reasoning, bias, and persuasive techniques such as emotional appeals, character...
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Other

Teachers Network: A Trip to Baseball Hall of Fame (Writing a Persuasive Letter)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan focuses on improving students' persuasive writing skills. Students reseach baseball and then write a persuasive essay to convince the baseball coach that a trip the Baseball Hall in Fame would be beneficial to the...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Fallacies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A thirty-part learning module with links to texts, images, websites, and videos about common fallacies found in arguments.
Graphic
BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Texts Fact Sheets

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Six printable fact sheets on how to understand and recognize different types of text including descriptive, informative, instructive, and persuasive.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.3.1a: Introduce the Topic or Text They Are Writing About

For Students 3rd Standards
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.
PPT
Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Logical Fallacies [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A slide show explaining different types of fallacies in persuasive texts including personal attack, bandwagon, appeal to authority, and many more. Then try to find the fallacy in several examples; answers and explanations provided.
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Education.com

Education.com: W.3.1.a Worksheets: Introduce the Topic or Text They Are Writing

For Students 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 21 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.1.A: Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion,...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Friendly Controversy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
How do I convince others to understand my side of the story? Second grade students conducted shared research activities and participated in a Socratic Seminar practicing the techniques of persuasive reasoning.
Unknown Type
Education.com

Education.com: W.4.1 Worksheets: Write Opinion Pieces on Topics or Texts

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 29 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to identify author's purpose including to entertain, to inform, and to persuade. Lessons are based on the books The Adventures of Taxi Dog by...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing Arguments

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on argumentative and persuasive writing: it lists and defines the components of arguments, provides a flow chart for argumentative writing, defines counterarguments, and lists the 3 elements of persuasion: ethos,...
Primary
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Logical Fallacies List: Arguments to Avoid [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a multi-page PDF list of logical fallacies to avoid when writing. These include a detailed list includes fallacies in relevance, reasoning, omission, and ambiguity; and discusses the logic tool "Occam's Razor." This list of...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? World War Ii Posters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will analyze World War II posters. Students will first look at the posters as a whole group and will work independently. Students will to determing how the following terms differ: argument, persuasion and...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Water From the Air: Cloud Forests

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this informational text passage, facts about cloud forests are shared, along with persuasive language to stress the importance of them and threats to them. This passage is a stand-alone curricular...

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