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Persuasive Writing 5th grade
Persuasive Writing 5th grade
Essential Question• Why do I need to know how to
write a persuasive paper?
Graphic Organizer• Types of Persuasive
Writing• What Persuasive
Writing Is
• Purpose of Persuasive Writing
• Any other information I think is important about persuasive writing
Have you ever asked your parents to buy you something special?
Have you tried to convince your parents to let you spend the night with someone or go to take a special trip?
* Discuss with a partner a time you tried to persuade your parents to do something or to allow you do to something.
• Sometimes you have to write to try to persuade someone to do something or try to persuade someone to change their mind about something.
• When you do this with writing, you have to form an opinion and try to convince someone else of your opinion by supporting it with relevant facts, ideas, and examples.
Ways to Persuade• Magazine Ads• TV Commercials• Newspaper Ads
Types of Persuasive Writing
• Advertisements for clothing, toys, or food
• Travel brochures• Political speeches• Requests for donations to charities• Movie reviews• Book reviews• Letters to the editor
Defining Persuasive Writing• Persuasive Writing: Writing for the purpose
of convincing others to accept the writer’s position as valid, adopt a certain point of view, or take some action.
• Method:• Provides logical appeals, emotional
appeals, facts, statistics, narrative anecdotes, humor, and/or the writer’s personal experiences and knowledge to support a position.
What Persuasive Writing Is and Is NotAn effective persuasive composition . . .
An effective persuasive composition is NOT
Clearly establishes a position A list of facts, a story, and/or personal anecdotes that do not establish a clear position
Includes appeals to logic and/or emotion A chance for the writer to simply vent about a topic
Contains an appropriate organizational strategy for the purpose of persuasion
Writing in which ideas are presented in illogical or confusing order
Is multi-paragraph writing that supports a specific side of an issue
A single paragraph
Fully develops the writer’s position with specific details and examples
A formulaic response with repetitive ideas and language
Uses specific facts, personal experience and knowledge, and/or statistics to support the writer’s position
A presentation of irrelevant ideas
Uses a lively writing voice to engage the reader
Flat, uninteresting writing
What Persuasive Writing Is and Is NotAn effective persuasive composition . . .
An effective persuasive composition is NOT
Uses engaging, precise language and varied sentences
An essay that contains imprecise language and little sentence variety
Introduces the reader to the issue, fully develops a position, and provides a sense of closure
Writing that presents ideas without introducing, developing, and/or providing closure
May contain a short narrative in the introduction or a skillful extended narrative that supports the writer’s position
A story that does not address the persuasive purpose of the topic
Demonstrates that the writer can anticipate and counter the audience’s positions on the issue
Writing that does not consider the audience when developing a position on an issue
Contains correct sentences, usage, grammar, and spelling that make the writer's ideas understandable
Incorrect sentences, usage, grammar, and spelling that prevent the reader from understanding the writer's ideas
Overview of Persuasive WritingPurpose: What is the writer convincing me
to think or do?
-Introduction-Supporting reasons-Conclusion
-Argument-Address Counter argument-Conclusion
-Introduction-One side of the issue-Another side of the issue-Conclusion
-Introduction-Anecdote illustrating position-Conclusion
Organizational Patterns forPersuasive Writing
• Introduction Supporting ideas Conclusion
• Argument Address counter-argument Conclusion
• Introduction Both sides of the issue Conclusion
• Introduction Anecdote illustrating position Conclusion
• Introduction Proposed plan and supportConclusion
The Writer’s Position/Point of View• There are three main types of positions a writer
may adopt in a persuasive piece:– Support– Oppose– Present and defend a plan or an alternative
• The writer’s position may be stated directly or implied by the evidence the writer presents.
• In persuasive writing, the writer’s point of view is often the same as the writer’s position on the issue.
Purpose
• Persuasive writing can have several purposes:
• convincing others to adopt a certain point of view on an issue
• Convincing others to take some action
• Convincing others to accept the writer’s position as valid.
Demonstrating Audience Awareness in Persuasive Writing
• Effective writers use the following techniques to engage the reader
• Descriptive Details• Figurative Language: Imagery, similes, metaphors• Authoritative voice• Emotional appeals• Addressing the reader• Humor• Personal anecdotes• Rhetorical questions
Style Strategies for Persuasive Writing• Strategies to Engage the Reader:• Rhetorical Questions; “How would you feel if..”• Addressing the reader: “You should” or “We all
should”• Emotional Appeals: “Animals are sad in zoos.” • Use of the inclusive “We”• Anticipating reader concerns about the issue• Using personal experiences to support the
writer’s position• Figurative Language• Connotative Meanings• Evocative Voice
Summary of Persuasive Writing
Scoring Guidelines
• 10-22 Does not Meet
• 23 -26 Borderline Meets
• 27 – 40 Meets the Standard
• 41 – 43 Borderline Exceeds
• 44 – 50 Exceeds the Standard
Task:• I am going to read the following
paper to you. • You and a partner are going to
discuss if this student has a paper that tries to persuade or convince you of something.
PersuasivePaper 10
PersuasivePaper 10
(page two)
PersuasivePaper 10
(page three)
PersuasivePaper 10
(page four)
Persuasive Paper 1
PersuasivePaper 2
Persua-sivePaper 3
PersuasivePaper 6
PersuasivePaper 6(page two)
PersuasivePaper 7
PersuasivePaper 8
Persuasive Paper 8(page 2)
Persuasive Paper 9
PersuasivePaper 9(page two)
Your Persuasive Writing Topic• Your school has raised $10,000.
How should it spend the money? Should they buy better PE equipment? Should they buy more technology for the classrooms so that every teacher has computers in the classroom? Should they donate it to a children’s charity? Write a letter to your principal persuading him or her to your point of view.
Remember the Steps of the Writing Process
• Prewriting (Brainstorming)• Drafting• Revising/Editing• Publishing/Sharing
Prewriting• Decide which idea you support.
Write it down on this sticky note.• Share it aloud.• Choose a partner that shares your
opinion.
Prewriting• Complete a brainstorming activity
together coming up with as many reasons as possible to support your opinion.
• Each person in the pair will need to narrow this list down to the two, three, or four reasons that you can support the best with your own personal reasons, examples, etc. so that you will be able to develop your paper from these.
Drafting• Write your paper as your ideas
come to you.• If you have difficulty starting with
the introduction, you may want to skip the introduction and come back to it.
Revising/Editing• Use your checklist and rubrics to
make sure that you have your paper worded the way you want it.
• Proofread for errors.• Make sure you used a variety of
words and sentences.
Publishing/Sharing• Share your paper with a person
that did not have the same opinion as you.
• Were you able to convince them to change their mind? If not, you may want to think about why your reasons why not effective.
• Answering the essential question--
• Write a persuasive paper that shows that you know how to persuade a reader to accept your opinion or view point.
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