GUIDELINES

TO TEACHING
PERSUASIVE WRITING

Understanding Point of View

Pro/Con Chart
Mentor Texts
All About Frogs by Jim Arnosky

A Clean Sky: The Global Warming Story by Robyn Friend

Hummingbirds: Tiny but Mighty by Julianne Gehman

USING PERSUASIVE WRITING FOR

REAL-WORLD PURPOSES
Persuasive Writing Topics

Persuasive Writing Topics

Personal
Issues

Topic:

School
Issues

Topic:

Community
Issues

Topic:

World
Issues

Topic:

Getting a pet

Wearing
uniforms

Need a bus
stop on our
street

Recycling

Audience:

Audience:

Audience:

Audience:

Parents

Principal and
Teachers

School Board

People who
throw away
recyclables

Narrowing the Topic to a Manageable Size

As with any writing, students may start off their topic too broad. Help
students to narrow down their topic and find the most important arguments to
write about.
Mentor Texts
Arthurs Thanksgiving by Marc Brown

In November by Cynthia Rylant

Graphic Organizers for Persuasion

Essay Topic/Opinion of Topic

Relationship
Pro/Con Chart
Building an Argument
Persuasion Map
Oreo Organizer

Formats for Writing

Travel guides
Business letters
Advertisements
Poem
Essays

Writing an Essay

Introduction

Body
Leads

Topic and Point

Structure
Compare/Contrast
Cause/Effect
Problem/Solution

Use Narrative to
Persuade

Conclusion
Restate Point

Rhetorical
Questions

Arguments and
Supporting Details
State your
Arguments

Anecdotes
Examples
Statistics
Explanations

Personalized
Connection

Summary
Statements