Persuasive letter

Persuasive Letter Frame

A free grades 2-4 unit for persuasive writing. These free teaching activities are in google apps and in printables.

“Persuasive sentence starters”

Teaching our students to write to an extended response persuasive writing prompt is challenging but fun! Students really have to use their brains to come up with the best reasons to change the...

For most of the month of February, we have been working on a unit about Persuasive Letter Writing. I took this unit primarily from Lucy Calkin's Writing Workshop, but make a few tweaks, of course. I chose a bunch of fun Mentor Texts for this unit, including Click, Clack, Moo, by Doreen Cronin and I Wanna Iguana, by Karen Kaufman Orloff. Early in the unit, we were fortunate to go see the play version of "Click, Clack, Moo" which just happened to be touring with TheaterWorks USA right here in…

A free grades 2-4 unit for persuasive writing. These free teaching activities are in google apps and in printables.

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Persuasive Writing Letter

What is persuasive writing? Checklist and further reading Persuasive writing uses words to convince the reader to listen or to act. Great business writers use persuasive writing in proposals, articles, newsletters, memos,...

Start-Up Activity Bring some local newspapers to class and share with your students a few letters to the editor. Point out that sharing opinions is a special right that we have. With this right comes the responsibility to be fair, respectful, and thoughtful. Let your students know that this chapter will help them write their own persuasive letters. Maybe students will even convince readers to take action to make the world a better place.