My View, My Voice, Levels K-2 ebook

21 Strategies for Powerful, Persuasive Writing

Rebekah Coleman, Carolyn Greenberg

• Publisher: Shell Education
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781425816971
• eBook ISBN:
  9781425835330
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Teaching Languages

This classroom resource provides teachers with a strong foundation in the elements of persuasive writing. In the 21st century classroom, the skills and strategies required to effectively evaluate and compose opinions has never been greater. This book discusses why teaching persuasive writing is relevant and beneficial to the target age groups, and includes resources to help grades K-2 students examine multiple views on a topic and write their own informed, effective opinions and arguments. Persuasive writing provides students with an avenue to examine a topic, develop informed views, express their opinions, and defend their ideas with logical, evidence-based reasoning. This resource takes a unique approach to the topic of teaching persuasive writing with an effective combination of tips, strategies, and resources. With mentor texts, student writing samples, rubrics, lesson plans, and questions to assess professional growth at the end of each section, teachers will learn why persuasive writing is so important in today's classrooms, and how to tackle the challenge of teaching it. This book includes: 21 persuasive writing strategies; 10 lesson plans; student writing samples; mentor texts; anchor charts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Credits
• Page 3 - Table of Contents
• Page 4 - Acknowledgments
• Page 5 - Foreword
• Page 7 - Introduction
• Page 7 - Why Persuasive Writing Matters
• Page 10 - Five Key Obstacles to Successful Teachingof Persuasive Writing
• Page 13 - The K–8 Continuum
• Page 16 - Conclusion
• Page 17 - Section 1: The Language of Persuasion
• Page 17 - Overview
• Page 18 - Essential Vocabulary
• Page 20 - Sentence Frames
• Page 21 - Tips to Immerse Students in EssentialVocabulary
• Page 23 - Section 2: Topic Choice Matters
• Page 23 - Overview
• Page 24 - Understanding the Concept
• Page 25 - Guidelines for Choosing Topics Effectively
• Page 28 - Let Students Have Choices
• Page 29 - Limited Choice Is Better than No Choiceat All.
• Page 29 - When Topic Choice Is Not Possible
• Page 31 - Section 3: Many Ways of Writing
• Page 31 - Overview
• Page 32 - Reading to Write: The Importance ofReading to Immerse Students inPersuasive Writing
• Page 35 - Traditional and Innovative Forms ofPersuasive Writing
• Page 36 - High- and Low-Tech Suggestions
• Page 39 - Section 4: Promoting Strong Persuasive Writing
• Page 39 - Overview
• Page 40 - Supporting Diverse Readers and Writers
• Page 41 - 21 Persuasive-Writing Strategies forK–2 Students
• Page 42 - Strategies for Success
• Page 81 - Section 5: Model Lessons
• Page 81 - Overview
• Page 81 - Lesson Design
• Page 82 - Model Lessons A–J
• Page 103 - Section 6: Tools for Success
• Page 103 - Overview
• Page 104 - Persuasive-Writing Vocabulary forStudents
• Page 106 - Reproducible Items
• Page 114 - Samples of Persuasive Text
• Page 121 - Sample Cross-Disciplinary Project Plan
• Page 122 - Sample Persuasive Reading and Writing UnitPlans: Kindergarten, Grades 1 and 2
• Page 132 - Grade-Level Checklists of ProficientPerformance in Persuasive Writing:Kindergarten, Grades 1 and 2
• Page 133 - Grade-Level Editing Checklists
• Page 136 - Questions for Close Reading
• Page 137 - Literature Connections—Book Li
• Page 139 - Persuasive-Writing Samples
• Page 139 - Opinion Pieces
• Page 142 - Leveled Opinion Pieces for Differentiation
• Page 148 - Leveled Opinion Pieces for Differentiation—One Topic, Two Views
• Page 151 - Persuasive Letter
• Page 152 - Book Reviews
• Page 154 - Infographics
• Page 155 - Standards and Correlations
• Page 157 - References Cited
• Thank You Page