1. Persuasive Writing 5th grade

2. Essential Question
Why do I need to know how to write a persuasive paper?

3. Graphic Organizer Types of Persuasive Writing
What Persuasive Writing Is
Purpose of Persuasive Writing
Any other information I think is important about persuasive writing

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Ways to Persuade
Magazine Ads
TV Commercials
Newspaper Ads

7. 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

8. 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.

9. What Persuasive Writing Is and Is Not
An 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

10. What Persuasive Writing Is and Is Not
An 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

11. Overview of Persuasive Writing Purpose: What is the writer convincing me to think or do?
-Introduction
-Supporting reasons
-Conclusion
-Argument
-Address Counter argument
-One side of the issue
-Another side of the issue
-Anecdote illustrating position

12. Organizational Patterns for Persuasive 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 support Conclusion

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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

16. 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

17. Summary of Persuasive Writing

21. In order for participants to gain confidence in assessing student writing samples, it is essential that they have multiple opportunities to apply the new Georgia Grade 3 Writing Rubric.
Remind participants that they aren’t looking for an exact match with the rubric description; they are looking for a best fit. A student paper may demonstrate characteristics of two adjacent score points.

22. Scoring Guidelines
Does not Meet
Borderline Meets
27 – 40 Meets the Standard
41 – 43 Borderline Exceeds
44 – 50 Exceeds the Standard

23. 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.

24. Persuasive Paper 10

25. Persuasive Paper 10 (page two)

26. Persuasive Paper 10 (page three)

27. Persuasive Paper 10 (page four)

28. Persuasive Paper 1

29. Persuasive Paper 2

30. Persua-sive Paper 3

33. Persuasive Paper 6

34. Persuasive Paper 6 (page two)

35. Persuasive Paper 7

36. Persuasive Paper 8

37. Persuasive Paper 8 (page 2)

38. Persuasive Paper 9

39. Persuasive Paper 9 (page two)

40. 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.

41. Remember the Steps of the Writing Process
Prewriting (Brainstorming)
Drafting
Revising/Editing
Publishing/Sharing

42. Prewriting
Decide which idea you support. Write it down on this sticky note.
Share it aloud.
Choose a partner that shares your opinion.

43. 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.

44. 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.

45. 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.

46. 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.

47. 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.