Persuasive Writing

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Persuasive Writing
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What is persuasive writing?

• Persuasive writing is used to
• share your reasons for an idea or change to the
  way something is done
• convince someone that your idea is best
• convince someone to make a change to a rule
  or policy
• persuade someone to do something

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How do you do persuasive writing?

• When you do persuasive writing, you can do
• a paragraph
• a letter
• a fictional story
• a report
• a project

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How do you do persuasive writing?

• In grade three, we focus on writing the
• persuasive letter. There are ___ steps
• to writing a persuasive letter.
• Its very easy to do. The hardest
• part of persuasive writing is
• coming up with your ideas.

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Step One You gotta make a web!
wed be helping the environment because our
snacks would not have any packaging
we could learn how to plant our own food so we
could do it when were grown ups
it would be fun
great exercise for students and teachers
students could be healthier because wed be
eating more fruits and vegetables
we could sell our produce and make money to buy
more things for our school
we have so much space out back, it would be a
good idea to use it for a garden
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Now choose your 3 or 4 best ideas
wed be helping the environment because our
snacks would not have any packaging
we could learn how to plant our own food so we
could do it when were grown ups
it would be fun
great exercise for students and teachers
students could be healthier because wed be
eating more fruits and vegetables
we could sell our produce and make money to buy
more things for our school
we have so much space out back, it would be a
good idea to use it for a garden
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Step Two begin your letter

• You must include
• the date
• Dear _________, (dont forget the comma!)

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Step Three opening sentence

• Your opening sentence will tell your reader your
  purpose for writing
• Heres what youll write
• I am writing to you today to share with you ____
• For our example, you would write
• I am writing to you today to share
• with you why I think we need a
• garden at our school.

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Heres what we have so far

• Wednesday December 7
• Dear Mrs. Hogan,
• I am writing to you today to share
• with you why I think we need a
• garden at our school.

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Step Four tell how many reasons you have for
your idea

• I have three (or four) reasons why _____
• For our example, you would write
• I have four reasons why I think our school should
  have a garden.

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Step Five Tell your reasons

• In this part of your letter, youll tell your
  reasons by starting the next three sentences
  with
• First,
• Second,
• Third,
• Last but not least,

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Step Six Two closing sentences

• You write
• Thank you for reading my letter. I hope you will
  consider my ideas.

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Step Seven Sign your letter

• Sincerely,
• or
• Yours Truly,

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Wednesday January 13 Dear Mrs. Hogan, I am
writing to you today to share with you why I
think we need a garden at our school. I have four
reasons why I think our school should have a
garden. First, it would be great exercise for
students and teachers to get outdoors and work in
the garden. Second, we could learn how to plant
and grow our own food so that when were grown
ups, wed know how to do it. Third, we would be
healthier because we would be eating more fruits
and vegetables. Last but not least, wed be
helping the environment because our snacks would
not produce garbage. Thank you for reading my
letter. I hope you will consider my ideas.
Sincerely, Gary Gardener