Argumentative and Persuasive Writing

Persuasive and argumentative writing are cornerstones of teaching English language arts. These genres of writing can be great tools for teaching the writing process, argumentation, rhetoric, rhetorical devices, research, audience awareness, and analytical thinking. These skills further debate, public speaking, and the student of fallacies. Perfect for middle, high school, and AP English Language teachers.
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Source Credibility and Bias Card Sorts / Google Slides and Google Forms
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7 Tools for Teaching "Privileged" by Kyle Korver / Editable Questions
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32 Rhetoric Task Cards for ANY Argumentative / Persuasive Text / Print + Digital
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7 Powerful Speeches for Teaching Rhetorical Analysis in ELA
Our state assessment always features a famous speech, so it's essential to prepare students for rhetorical analysis. Beyond the state assessment, rhetorical analysis helps students understand the constant barrage of persuasive media they encounter each day. With the right skills, students can assess sponsored content, commercials, and advertisements with a critical and wary eye. For this reason, I've collected several speeches to help students practice rhetorical analysis!
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Promoting Academic Accountability Through Integrity moore-english.com #moore-english
Academic dishonesty is an unfortunate reality. Students have countless reasons for committing academic dishonesty, which includes plagiarism and cheating. In the ELA world, students “borrowing” papers from friends, buying them online, and/or recycling their own work all pose significant problems. How can teachers combat this challenge? And how can we make students our partners in this pursuit?
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7 Lessons to Make the Most of Teaching Informational Texts #mooreenglish @moore-english.com
Teaching informational texts and nonfiction texts is an important part of language arts classrooms. With informational texts, teachers have the opportunity to teach tone, point of view, author's credibility, rhetoric, historical context, text features, annotation, and synthesis skills.
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8 Fresh, Fun Ways to Teach Research Skills
While students often struggle to see the relevance of poetic meter, they can usually appreciate the value of developing research skills. With the glut of information readily available, students often understand the value of being able to determine which information is reliable and which is not. Even as students soak up social media, it's important for them to think critically about where information comes from. Make the research process engaging for students with these fun, fresh ideas!
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The Writing & Argument Bundle
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Editable Canva SOAPSTone Graphic Organizers
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5 Ways to Celebrate Banned Books Week
Books banned in schools feature LGBTQIA+ characters and People of Color. They feature racism, activism, civil rights, exual content, or religious minorities. Book bans come from places of fear, hatred, concern, anger, fragility, and prejudice. These are the very emotions that reading fights. Reading literature teaches compassion, empathy, and curiosity. And since book bans threaten schools across the country, it's important that teachers and schools celebrate Banned Books Week.
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Steps in a Research Process Card Sort / Google Slides
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Build a Better Persuasive Speech Unit This Year
Teach your students to craft captivating speeches to grip and convince their audience. This blog post walks you through creating an awesome persuasive speech unit. From choosing high-interest subjects to scaffolding to tips for cutting down student anxiety, this comprehensive guide will help you plan a unit that your students will love. My full unit packet is also available if you don't want to make your own!
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Rhetoric Card Sort (Ethos, Pathos, and Logos) / Print, Forms, Slides
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PowerPoint Party: A Fun Persuasion Game — Bespoke ELA: Essay Writing Tips + Lesson Plans
This is a fun social activity that I have adapted for practicing rhetorical skills in the secondary English #ELA #RLA classroom. Check out this blog post from #bespokeela for ideas on how to implement this strategy as an engaging activity for practicing #rhetoric . #aplang #englishteacher #rhetoricalanalysis #essaywriting #argument
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5 Powerful Poems for Exploring the American Dream
Exploring the American Dream is now the first unit for my juniors. This made for a great first unit because most students have strong opinions about the American Dream, so they felt passionate about their writing and in classroom discussions. These 5 poems also made a good place for us to reaffirm expectations for reading and annotating texts, synthesizing across texts, and producing structured, academic writing.