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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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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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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Planning and Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers that students can use to plan their written pieces. Graphic organizers for all modes of writing are provided.
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Writing Persuasion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has a simple set of guidelines to use when writing a persuasive essay.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing a Persuasive Letter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Guilty or Innocent

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A writing lesson using the R.A.F.T. model and the short story "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst. Students take on the role of attorneys and write persuasive speeches for the jury proclaiming the narrator's guilt or innocence.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Project Persuasion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides persuasive essay graphic organizers. Students will be able to write a persuasive essay more efficiently by using these tools.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Pros and Cons of Discussion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for four lessons that use "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to engage students in a discussion about what constitutes equality. Lessons use re-writes, persuasive essays, computer activities, and informal class...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Democracy Project: Honk if You Agree

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
In 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.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Wacky Smear Campaign

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Inspired by Barry Lane's book 51 Wacky We-Search Reports, in this cross-curricular instructional activity students learn how to summarize properly.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Free Speech and Persuasion in "Nothing but the Truth"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Contains plans for five lessons that use Avi's "Nothing But the Truth" to teach about free speech and give learners an opportunity to develop persuasive arguments. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing persuasive, expository, and fiction texts.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing persuasive, expository, and fiction texts.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Changing the World With Video Public Service Announcements

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for six lessons that ask learners to create their own public service announcements (PSAs) using Windows Movie Maker or other similar software. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Combining Persuasion and Literary Analysis

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Contains plans for eight lessons that ask students to put characters from a work of literature on trial. This lesson uses Shakespeare's "The Tempest" as an example, but this concept can be applied to other works as well. In addition to...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Persuasive Techniques in Advertising

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
During this unit, students will learn about many different advertising techniques. Students will investigate the "art of rhetoric" and analyze many print, television, and online advertisements. Using the site's online tools, groups will...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Com'on Down to Eatonville, Florida

For Teachers 9th - 10th
You are Mayor Joe Starks from the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and you want more people to relocate to Eatonville, Florida. Identify five amenities that may make Eatonville attractive to African-Americans...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Everyone Counts (Post Assessment)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...

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