Persuasive writing is the topic of this article. Students will learn the parts of the persuasive essay and how to write an effective persuasive essay.

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.

This site has a simple set of guidelines to use when writing a persuasive essay.

Contains plans for four lessons that teach young scholars how to make and present strong persuasive speeches. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...

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.

A writing instructional activity 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...

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.

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.

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...

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing persuasive, expository, and fiction texts.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing persuasive, expository, and fiction texts.

Contains plans for six lessons that ask students 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...

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...

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...

Annotated excerpts from Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" that clearly demonstrate the writer's ability to persuade his American readers to separate from England.

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...