2nd+Grade+Persuasive+Writing

** Hillary Bentley ** ** Hayes Center PublicSchools ** ** 2nd Grade ** ** Persuasive Writing **

** Lesson: **

Students will be asked to write a persuasive paper on the topic: Why is living in a small rural town great?

** Materials: **

Pencil, paper, colored highlighters (green, yellow, pink), and green, yellow, red/ pink strips.

** Teacher Note: **

This lesson is being used as a guided practice. Students will be given the topic and the conclusion.

** Purpose of Lesson: **

The purpose of this lesson is to write a persuasive paragraph with guided practice on using the colored sentence strips.

** Duration of Lesson: **

Students are given the topic and the conclusion. I have planned this lesson to last eight days, but it really depends on your class.

Students will be given the persuasive writing prompt: Why is living in a small rural town great? We will do some whole group brainstorming. **Day 2: Planning** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Since students will be given the topic sentence their next step will be to come up with 3 Big Ideas.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Day 1: Brainstorming **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Day 3: T-Chart** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">I plan to introduce T-Chart notes during guided practice. Students will use their Big Ideas from day 2.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** Day 4: Highlighting ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The next step will be to list supporting details. As we write our topic we will highlight in green and Big Ideas in yellow.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** Day 5: Pink it Up! ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will add supporting details to their Big Ideas and highlight them in pink. They will also write their conclusion and highlight it in green.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** Day 6: Verbalize ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Have students take out their highlighted visual from day 4 & 5. Students will turn to a elbow partner and verbalize their persuasive paragraph out loud using their highlighted papers. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Day 7: Reinforce** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students get out their papers from days 4-6. The teacher will hands out colored sentence strips according to their plan. Write sentences on the coordinating color strips and organize their paper.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** Day 8: Share and Conclude ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">At this point I will have my students share their persuasive paragraphs with the class. This paper will then go into their writing folder and may be brought out at another time for revising, editing, and publishing.