The world is an ever changing place, and through this lesson students will have a chance to send a call out for change. Using Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'" as an inspiration and a model, students will brainstorm change,...

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

[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...

In this lesson, students will use active voice in regards to persuasion. Lesson incorporates the A R.A.F.T. strategy: role, audience, format, topic.

Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.

This lesson 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...

[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...

In this activity outline based on The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, learners learn about parts of a letter, the different genres of mail, and letter attributes by studying the letters included in the book.

A lesson plan that prompts students to write persuasive letters and lobby for issues they feel strongly about.

A writing lesson using the R.A.F.T. model and the short story "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst. Learners take on the role of attorneys and write persuasive speeches for the jury proclaiming the narrator's guilt or innocence.

Contains plans for nine lessons that ask young scholars to create multigenre zines for popular culture figures that include letter, persuasive, narrative, acrostic poetry, comic, and biography/autobiography writing. To accomplish this,...

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.

The activities included in this lesson plan require the reading of William Armstrong's Sounder. This technology-based instructional activity fosters critical thinking and includes journal writing, student-led discussions with another...

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...

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...

In this lesson, students write a persuasive letter to the President of the United States. Students will research the 2000 Presidential election, interview parents, and reflect on their own opinions and experiences to write their letter....

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

Links to 37 lessons that focus on skills within third grade reading standard W.3.1.

Links to 11 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.1d: Provide a concluding statement or section.

Links to 27 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.1b: Provide reasons that support the opinion.

Contains plans for four lessons that use "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to engage young scholars in a discussion about what constitutes equality. Lessons use re-writes, persuasive essays, computer activities, and informal...

This PDF lesson plan is for students to use Martin Luther King's famous speech as an example to write their own persuasive speech about an issue of their choice. Students will utilize their knowledge of oratorical strategies to deliver...

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...

In this lesson plan, 5th graders are asked to write an opinion about whether the United States should stop using pennies. Their opinion must be based on ideas and information from the two reading passages provided.