Can You Convince Me? Developing Persuasive Writing

Thank you so much for sharing such a comprehensive lesson. I am definitely going to use this lesson and look forward to seeing your other lessons.
Thanks for sharing.

I am also unable to open the powerpoint presentation of the lesson....darn it!!

Just wanted to say what a well structured lesson this is!! Im writing some lessons on persuasive writing at the moment and this has helped me incorporate games in to my lessons! So thank you!
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I am planning to get at least through session 2 this week, but I have a question. I am already anticipating that students may have a hard time (as I do) understanding the difference between Logos and Research. I understand that Logos refers to a classic approach to argument, while Research refers to how you obtain the data, but how do you explain the difference between these two categories on this worksheet to the kids? Do many instances come up where they are using "logic, numbers, facts, and data" that they didn't obtain through research?

I am beginning my unit on Persuasive writing this week and just found your unit! I love it. What is even better is that I am being formally evaluated on Wed. and will definitely be okay with these types of activities. I am so excited.

For the game, is it two teams depending on if they thought winter was the best or not? Or do I make smaller teams? Thanks!

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Thank you for sharing this lesson. I used it and it worked wonders in my class. While I had to make some modifications, they were very minor. I am inspired by it. Thank you!

Great resources. Thank you so much. It made lesson preparation so much easier.

I am working on a persuasive writing unit and you have created wonderful resources. Thank you for sharing your work!

The game was a great way to start of the lesson! My students enjoyed it a lot and were then ready for more! I was unable to connect to the link for the power point presentation.

I am excited to use your worksheets, strategies, and rubric. I work for a charter school, and have to create my curriculum. This will save me lots of time, and get awesome ideas! Thanks

Although this is geared toward grades 3 - 5, there were certainly enough good ideas for me to adapt to my 8th graders. My lower level students quickly learned what I intended them to learn, and my gifted had fun learnin additional strategies. As previously posted, many did not even know they "knew this," and many others had fun learning persuasive techniques.

Great resource, easy to follow and implement in class, thanks

Awesome resource, thanks!

I love this lesson! It's fun and engaging. Thanks

I have been teaching persuasive writing for years and have never seen such an effective way to teach the strategies than having the students play the persuasive game. We never laughed so much as when the students tried to convince me to give them a prize---and it is amazing the lengths they go to do so! At the same time, each group used one of the strategies without even knowing it! Great fun and great learning! Thanks!

Juliet, you're probably experiencing technical difficulties with the PDF links because you don't have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer. You can download it for free by clicking the red Acrobat Reader icon button on our Site Tools page: http://www.readwritethink.org/util/help.html. Please let me know if this does not solve your problem.

I am unable to download or print any of the handouts for this lesson!

Thanks for alerting us to the broken links, Anita. There was a minor glitch in migrating all of the content when we launched the redesigned site. Everything should be available now.