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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Persuasive Text: Writing Persuasive Essays

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explores instructional practices for persuasive essay writing in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies classes. It uses original content from the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies: Focus on...
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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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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Lamb to the Slaughter Persuasive Writing [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a PDF of a persuasive writing assignment for the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl. It asks the students to watch a linked video clip of the closing argument by Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird and apply...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for four lessons that teach students how to write letters to the editor, including what one is, a review of persuasive writing and letter format, and the importance of writing many drafts. In addition to objectives and...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 4.1: Persuasive Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write a persuasive essay by organizing arguments in a logical order, providing appropriate supporting details, clarifying main arguments, and identifying...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Persuasive Essay Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of assignments related to persuasive writing are provided on this site. Scaffolded assignments related to writing an effective introduction and identifying both sides of an issue are included. Exemplar persuasive essays with...
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: Ten Important Triggers for Persuasive Writing

For Students 9th - 10th
Attention-getting ideas for persuasive writing topics are included in this article. Students can ensure high interest from their audiences by incorporating ideas presented in this article.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Persuasion Map

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A printable graphic organizer for students to use when writing on opinion or persuasive essay. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas, lesson plans, and other resources are also...
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Other

Hamilton: Essentials of Effective Persuasive Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides good insight on how to structure a well organized effective persuasive essay.
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Education.com

Education.com: Purposeful Writing: Kindergarten

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Your kindergarten students will learn how to share their opinion with others through entertaining and purposeful persuasive writing practice. At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Organizing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on the organization of your paper including how to write a thesis statement, the elements of an effective paragraph, patterns of organization, transitions, and conclusions. It also provides a video of the Toulmin...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Reading, Writing, and Sounder

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The activities included in this lesson plan require the reading of William Armstrong's Sounder. This technology-based lesson fosters critical thinking and includes journal writing, student-led discussions with another class via video...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: About the Writing Sample

For Students 9th - 10th
On Test Day, you'll be asked to write one sample essay after you've completed the scored sections of the LSAT. The writing sample isn't scored, but copies are sent to all law schools to which you apply. This article gives tips on writing...
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Other

Persuasive/argumentative Essay vs. Opinion Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan teaches students that writing a persuasive or argumentative essay for class is the same as writing an opinion article for their local newspaper. The lesson plan includes showing students examples of opinion writings and...
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Education.com

Education.com: W.3.1 Worksheets: Write Opinion Pieces on Topics or Texts

For Students 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Links to 24 worksheets and graphic organizers that can be downloaded and printed. Each worksheet focuses on skills highlighted in standard W.3.1: Write
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Writing a Persuasive Essay

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students research opposing viewpoints on controversial issues and develop their own position papers. Though primarily for English classes, this lesson could be easily adapted for an interdisciplinary unit with social...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Contemplation and Argumentation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided unit, you will read Romantic and Transcendental literature and you will practice the art of persuasion using rhetorical devices, appeals, and refutation while avoiding logical fallacies. By the end of the unit, you...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Success Skills: Writing in College

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Although this lesson focuses on college writing, it fits perfectly into the high school curriculum without being too difficult to understand. It provides types of essay writing assignments and how to handle each, strategies for writing...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Persuasion Rubric

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A printable four-point rubric to use when assessing a persuasive piece with a focus on organization, a goal or thesis, reasons/support, audience, word choice, visuals/delivery, and grammar/usage/mechanics. Directions on how to use this...
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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Te Kete Ipurangi: Guilty or Not?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is an excellent lesson unit that can be used with gifted students. Students can choose from three case files and each case file has six lesson plans. After studying a case, students must compose a persuasive argument, present it,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: How Big Was Hagrid?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will decide mathematically how large Hagrid, from the Harry Potter series, is through their reading of persuasive techniques.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Don't Eat Me Monologues

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson, students will create a 5-part (introduction, 3 ideas, conclusion) monologue incorporating persuasive techniques and strong word choice.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Character Credo Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Build your student's vocabulary, word choice and voice by asking them to write from the perspective of a particular character. Lesson plan incorporates the R.A.F.T.S. strategy: role, audience, format, topic and strong verb.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Selling Our Nation's Symbols on Ebay!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will write for a specific purpose in this cross-curricular lesson regarding our nation's landmarks and symbols.

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