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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner:workshop 4: Teaching Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
The fourth workshop [58:24] features the classrooms of two teachers: sixth-grade language arts teacher Jenny Beasley and fifth-grade teacher Jack Wilde. Both are teaching units on persuasive writing that allow students to write about...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Thesis Supported by Evidence

For Students 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the thesis and supporting evidence in a persuasive essay.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing the Persuasive Essay: Counterarguments Based on Evidence

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
You will be able to write an essay including counter-arguments that anticipate objections.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Issues: Persuasive Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on persuasive writing including what it is and is not and the components of persuasive writing. It features links to guides including Purdue Owl: "Logic in Argumentative Writing" and Study Guides and Strategies:...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Rhetorical Landscape: Persuasive Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on how to write a persuasive or argumenatative essay. It provides links to a "Persuasive Support" handout, a 7-page PDF on "Writing the Persuasive Essay," and Purdue Owl's "Argumentative Essays."
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4 Teachers: Persuade Star: Writing Persuasive Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This free online application is designed to help students in grades 5-12 write an online persuasive essay.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Can You Convince Me?: Developing Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This effective tool for teaching persuasive writing contains thorough lesson plans which encourage learners to take a stance and create arguments to support their position. Contains printable worksheets, rubrics, a PowerPoint...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Thesis and Support in the Persuasive Essay (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students about thesis statements and supporting details in an argumentative essay in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Choosing a Topic,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Counterarguments Based on Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising counter-arguments that anticipate objections in an essay.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay, including purpose, audience, and context.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising Persuasive Essay: Analysis of Data, Facts, and Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising specific data, facts, and ideas included in an essay.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Appropriate Appeals

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising essays so that they contain the appropriate appeals.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Counterarguments Based on Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising counterarguments that anticipate objections in an essay.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Writing Process: Generate Ideas and Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to generate ideas and questions as a part of the writing process in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Writing the Persuasive Essay:...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway:writing a Persuasive Essay:organizing Structure English Ii Writing

For Students 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to write an essay organized appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Thesis and Support in the Persuasive Essay (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to write an essay that includes a clear thesis and supporting evidence.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Thesis Supported by Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the thesis and supporting evidence in an essay.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising a Persuasive Essay: Organization Appropriate to Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] When you revise your persuasive essay, you need to make sure that the essay organization is appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context of your essay. Your message will...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Persuasive Writing for Summer Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A good lesson, to be used during the last month of the school year, for motivating young scholars to remain faithful to reading over the summer. Uses strategies such as student-chosen books and persuasive writing techniques.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organizing Structure in the Persuasive Essay (English I Writing)

For Students 9th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay organized appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Thesis Supported by Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the thesis and supporting evidence in an essay.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Counterarguments Based on Evidence

For Students 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising counterarguments that anticipate objections in an essay.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Professional Writer's Models: Grade 10: Persuasive Essay [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
From the novel titled "We the Media," this essay from writer Adam Hochschild presents a persuasive argument against the volume of televisions in places of public transport. A good model which can be used as a resource for students.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Grade 8: Writing a Persuasive Essay [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Provides a student model of a persuasive essay on the topic of television violence. Allows students to examine content, format, and structure and includes notes and annotations as student aids throughout.

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