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Speak Up for Recycling

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Are you looking for ways to enhance a persuasive writing or speech unit? Use this lesson to prompt your young writers to investigate a school recycling program. After conducting research, they present a persuasive, well-organized speech promoting the establishment of a recycling program, focusing on the organization of their argument and the use of transitional phrases.

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Persuasive Writing, persuasion, persuasive arguments, oral presentations, public speaking, transitions

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school recycling, speech, oral presentation, Persuasive Writing, transitions, english language arts
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Grade
4th - 7th
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English Language Arts
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