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What's My Point: Persuasive Writing Lesson PlanWhat's My Point: Persuasive Writing Lesson Plan
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What's My Point: Persuasive Writing

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Why do readers need to know an author’s purpose? How do you figure out what that purpose is? Guide your pupils through a series of activities that show them how to identify various techniques and structures used in persuasive writing. They then draft their own persuasive piece. Differentiated instruction support, extensions, and rubrics are included in this very detailed, scripted, interdisciplinary plan.

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author's purpose, authors, Persuasive Writing, persuasion, persuasive arguments, opinion writing

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author's point of view, author's purpose, Persuasive Writing, opinion piece, english language arts
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4th - 7th
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English Language Arts
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3 hrs
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