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Persuasive Writing
Inspire your students to develop a passion for writing, practice reading comprehension, and build vocabulary and grammar skills with these language arts lesson plans.
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Lesson Plans
Write Persuasively (Grades 3-5)
Show how word choice, supportive reasoning, and considering your audience relates to persuasive writing with this colorful lesson.
Presenting Persuasively (Grades 6-8)
Use this lesson to help your students identify the strongest and weakest components of their persuasive arguments!
Persuasive Communication (Grades 9-12)
Use this lesson and a thorough class discussion of advertisements to illustrate how frequently your students experience persuasive communication.
Choose Your Words Wisely (Grades 9-12)
With this group work-centered lesson, use several kinds of advertising to focus on word choice, and how that affects the strength or weakness of persuasive communication.
Presenting Persuasively (Grades 9-12)
Focus on teamwork and the "presentation end" of persuasive communication. Use the helpful review activity and wrap-up in this lesson to underscore the importance of presentation!