Descriptive Persuasive Texts

A brief activity on the effect of adjectives in advertising, the lesson provided here could work well as an introduction to persuasion. After a review on types of adjectives, pairs examine menus from local restaurants, marking down...

Your young writers will practice identifying the hook, position statement, and main points of two examples of persuasive writing.

Relate policy decisions to classroom activities. In order to prepare for a writing activity in which they will need to choose a side, learners are first given a sample policy for which they must choose yes or no and walk to the side of...

Persuade your pupils to take a stance on a variety of issues. Warm up with an activity that has class members walk to a yes or no sign based on their opinion. They then fill out a graphic organizer with persuasive arguments. After they...

Elementary learners examine topics that they have definite opinions about. They research a topic using Internet resources and find two images to use in a final article. Using the research collected, they write a persuasive article...

Introduce public policy and persuasive writing with a well-designed activity for junior high learners. The writers develop a stance on whether cities should have natural or green places within a half a mile of all residents. Included are...

To get to the heart of a writer's purpose, just remember to have some PIE (Persuade, Inform, or Entertain)! And appropriately, here is a PIE chart that leaves room for pupils to identify each letter of the acronym and any other ideas or...

Scratching your head when it comes to engaging writing prompts? Check out a list of prompts designed for middle school classes, which includes topics for persuasive writing, expository writing, how-to essays, personal narratives, and...

If you are interested in having a basic framework for teaching expository, narrative, persuasive, and descriptive writing, this resource may help; however, you will have to find information on the different forms of writing to share with...

Apply scholars' writing skills to a real-life problem: litter on campus. This lesson requires groups to use digital cameras to take pictures of litter they see on school grounds. Each group then develops "before" posters with pictures...