1. A Strategy for Persuasive Writing
POW + TREE
A Strategy for Persuasive Writing

2. Develop Background Knowledge What skills need explicit instruction?
Given a prompting question can the student:
Decide what he or she believes?
Respond clearly writing those beliefs?
Given a graphic organizer and information ,can the student appropriately fill in the organizer?
Given his or her topic sentence, can the student provide up to three written reasons to support the topic sentence?
Given his or her topic sentence and reasons to support that topic sentence, can the student elaborate on those reasons?
Given the topic sentence, reasons to support , and elaborations, can the student compose a statement summarizing the information?
Given the information in a graphic organizer, can the student construct a complete paragraph?

3. Discuss the strategy Why persuasive writing is important
POW + TREE tool can help improve the writing
POW gives you POWer when you write
Help remember parts of a persuasive essay
Help Organize ideas

4. Model POW + TREE Strategy P Pick my idea
O Organize my notes using TREE
T Topic Sentence Tell what you believe
R Reasons 3 or more
E Examples Why do I believe this?
Will my readers believe it?
E Ending Wrap it up right!
W Write and say more.

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6. Encourage Independent Use
Promote Memorization
Have students practice in pairs with cue cards
Provide Scaffolded Support
Poster
>Student Made Cue Cards (w/o poster)>
>No Cue Cards
Encourage Independent Use
Are the students actually using the strategy?
Has their writing performance improved?
Do the students see the strategy as valuable?
Can they use the strategy in other expository writing assignments (e.g., compare and contrast)?

7. References
The IRIS Center for Training Enhancements. (2006). Improving writing performance: A strategy for writing expository essays. Retrieved on [February 24, 2011] from ycle.htm Harris, K. R., Graham, S., Mason, L., & Friedlander, B. (2008). Powerful writing strategies for all students. Baltimore, MD: Brookes.

8. References
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