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.