This lesson is a persuasive strategy lesson plan for Tuck Everlasting. It allows the student to incorporate technology in the development of an original thirty-second commercial.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The PowerPoint lesson will guide students through the steps in persuasive writing.

In this lesson students will write a persuasive speech for the Fruit or Vegetable of the Year Award. Nutrition information should be incorporated into this cross-curricular lesson.

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

We are finishing up the story today. Today we are finishing analyzing the story by thinking about how the events and characters developed by the end of the text.

This lesson focuses on the writing in high school. Whether you write expository and persuasive essays or short stories, your first steps are to determine and define your audience. After that, you will begin to generate ideas and...

This lesson is centered on word choice and vocabulary and the book, I Wanna Iguana, by Karen Kaufman Orloff. Young students learn to grasp the difference between begging and persuading and apply this knowledge to their own persuasive texts.

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

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will present their opinion through drawing, writing and speaking. Students will enjoy discussing their favorite animals, pizza and cake. Students will learn about...

This lesson will focus on the writing you do in high school. Whether you write expository and persuasive essays or short stories, your first steps are to determine and define your audience. After that, you will begin to generate ideas...

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