Write on! Write with students in grades 5 and up using Writing a Persuasive Essay. This 80-page book breaks down persuasive writing into manageable steps such as choosing a subject, analyzing, defining terms, gathering information and organizing. Also covers supporting an argument, reviewing and writing the essay, revising, and finalizing. Clear information and examples teach students how to complete each step. The book also includes information for teachers and parents and tips for evaluating student responses.

The purpose of this book is to teach students how to write a five-paragraph essay and to demonstrate the creativity and fun involved in essay writing.

Provides practical ideas and strategies for exploring and teaching persuasive writing in grades 4-8. Includes reproducibles, graphic organizers, mini-lessons and check-lists.

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**This is a Google Slides version of the “What is a Persuasive Essay? & Writing a Persuasive Essay” chapter from the full lesson plan How to Write an Essay** Take the fear out of writing essays and empower your students by giving them the tools to comprehensively express their point of view. Our resource breaks down the writing process while exploring the four different kinds of essays. Find out how to change someone's mind with persuasive essays. All of our content is reproducible and aligned to your State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy. About GOOGLE SLIDES: This resource is for Google Slides use. Google Slides is free with a Google email account. We recommend having Google Classroom in addition to Google Slides to optimize use of this resource. This will allow you to easily give assignments to students with a click of a button. This resource is comprised of interactive slides for students to complete activities right on their device. It is ideal for distance learning, as teachers can share the resource remotely with their students, have them complete it and return, where the teacher can mark it from any location. What You Get: • An entire Google™ Slides presentation with reading passages, comprehension questions and drag and drop activities that students can edit and send back to the teacher. • A start-up manual, including a Teacher Guide on how to use Google Slides for your classroom, and an Answer Key to go along with the activities in the Google Slides document.

Write on! Write with students in grades 5 and up using Writing: Fundamentals for the Middle-School Classroom. This 128-page book helps students learn how to express themselves through writing. It provides open-ended lessons of personal writing, descriptive writing, short stories, poetry, and reports. This excellent classroom supplement also includes chapters arranged in order of increasing difficulty and activities that allow students to choose their own writing topics. It supports NCTE and IRA standards.

"And with Writing to Persuade you'll introduce students to real-world genres such as letters, editorials, and advertisements. Caine even gives teachers advice and specific lessons on persuasive writing for standardized tests. Better yet, she saves you hours of prep time by including examples of high-quality persuasive writing from students as well as real-life examples culled from national sources that are ready to hand out during your lessons."--BOOK JACKET.

If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you begin by carefully observing someone who knows how to shoot a basketball. If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher shares how he gets his students to stand next to and pay close attention to model writers, and how doing so elevates his students' writing abilities. Write Like This is built around a central premise: if students are to grow as writers, they need to read good writing, they need to study good writing, and, most important, they need to emulate good writers. In Write Like This, Kelly emphasizes real-world writing purposes, the kind of writing he wants his students to be doing twenty years from now. Each chapter focuses on a specific discourse: express and reflect, inform and explain, evaluate and judge, inquire and explore, analyze and interpret, and take a stand/propose a solution. In teaching these lessons, Kelly provides mentor texts (professional samples as well as models he has written in front of his students), student writing samples, and numerous assignments and strategies proven to elevate student writing. By helping teachers bring effective modeling practices into their classrooms, Write Like This enables students to become better adolescent writers. More important, the practices found in this book will help our students develop the writing skills they will need to become adult writers in the real world.

Write on! Write with students in grades 5 and up using Lessons in Writing. This 80-page book can be taught in any order to meet student or curricular needs. The activities in this book cover similes, metaphors, alliteration, rhyme, personification, irony, paradox, acronyms, and onomatopoeia. The book supports NCTE standards and is based on the idea that prewriting, incubation, production, and revision are important parts of the writing process. The persuasive essay section helps students practice for standardized tests.