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The Elements of Persuasive Writing: Teach with Fun Persuasive Writing Activities The elements of persuasive writing are best introduced with fun, hands-on persuasive writing activities. Explore the elements of persuasion creatively with the following ideas guaranteed to tease your students' thinking.
The major elements of persuasive writing include stating opinions, using supporting examples, connecting ideas with logic and reasoning, and appealing to a target audience.
Let's look at creative writing lesson plans that incorporate enjoyable persuasive writing activities. We'll start with the first of the elements of persuasive writing on our list: stating opinions.
Activity One: The Villains Speak!
Through this persuasive writing activity, your students will expand their abilities to consider other opinions and points of view. Together, list some well-known villains from fairy tales, such as the witch who imprisoned Rapunzel or Cinderella's stepsisters. As a class, choose a villain from the list and compose a paragraph for the board that explains part of the story from the villain's viewpoint. Here's an example, written from the view of one of Cinderella'a stepsisters:
I don't know why everyone gets upset because we ask Cinderella to help with chores around the manor! She grew up here anyway, and she knows how to run a country estate! My sister and I are from the city, and we don't know how to churn butter, scrub floors, or groom horses! We never learned how to do those things! Why shouldn't Cinderella help out?
Encourage your class to discuss how this different viewpoint helps them to see an old tale in a fresh way. Now, ask each child to select another villain from another fairy tale and create a segment of the story told in that character's opinion. Invite students to share their work with classmates. How might this new viewpoint add to an understanding of the plot?
Now, let's try the second of our persuasive writing activities. Of the elements of persuasive writing, this creative writing activity gives your students practice in using supportive examples. Activity Two: Character Campaign
Through this activity, students learn to systematically present and defend an opinion. Gather collections of fables, fairy tales, tall tales, folk tales, myths, and legends, and discuss these familiar plots and characters with your students. Then, select several personal qualities and suggest characters who might represent these qualities. For example, Scary could be personified by Snow White's stepmother or the witch in Hansel and Gretel. King Midas or Rumpelstiltskin might personify Greedy. Now have each student select a quality with its corresponding character and write a persuasive campaign-style paragraph. Remind students to use examples and incidents from the tales to support their choices. Here's an example:
Why You Should Vote for King Midas as Greediest!
King Midas is a greedy character, because he had the opportunity to ask the enchantress for the ability to become a just and wise ruler. Instead, when asked what he wished for more than anything else in the world, he asked that everything he touched turn to gold. And King Midas was already a very wealthy king! His love of riches was such that he was never satisfied. By asking for this power, he put his greed ahead of his own family. When he hugged his young daughter, she became a golden statue. King Midas sacrificed his only child for his greed. That's why you should vote for King Midas as the greediest legendary character!
Have the class read their paragraphs aloud and discuss the persuasiveness of their arguments. Which paragraphs are most persuasive and why?
Ready to try the third of our persuasive writing activities? Of the elements of persuasive writing, this creative writing activity gives your students practice in connecting ideas with logic and reasoning.
Activity Three: What are Your Reasons?
This writing activity helps your class understand how logical, convincing arguments grow out of carefully assembling the supporting facts. On the board, present the first and last sentences (the statement of opinion and the conclusion) of a persuasive paragraph on a familiar topic. Leave plenty of space between these sentences. Together, develop and write supporting facts and reasons that lead, step-by- step, from the opening statement to the conclusion. Here's an example:
Animal shelters are overcrowded because of irresponsible pet owners. A family may adopt a dog or cat without considering the care and training the animal requires. Or an owner may neglect spaying or neutering a pet and then be faced with an unwelcomed litter of puppies or kittens. As a result, both adult animals and young ones are brought to shelters. Many abandoned pets are euthanized due to the thoughtlessness of their owners.
Now have your students apply what they've learned about logical reasoning to their own persuasive paragraphs. Topics to consider might be adopting healthy diets, getting regular exercise, or the importance of environmental stewardship.
Now let's move on to the last of our persuasive writing activities. Of the elements of persuasive writing, this creative writing activity gives your students practice in appealing to a target audience.
Activity Four: Analyzing Different Viewpoints
Although the primary goal of persuasive writing is to bring an "undecided" audience around to the writer's viewpoint, a secondary goal (and more difficult to achieve) is to convince a "decided" audience audience to "switch sides." In this case, the first step is to understand why the target audience holds that opinion. With your class, make a list of debatable questions. Here are some examples: Should schools have a no-homework policy?
Should all students be required to learn a foreign language?
Should students be allowed to skip grade levels if their school work is exceptional?
Now discuss what it means to be objective: to consider all the angles that relate to a topic without stating any personal opinions. Select a question and together list reasons that support both affirmative and negative answers. Keep the same number of reasons in each list. Here's an example:
Do snack and soda machines belong in school cafeterias? Yes:(1) Kids get hungry during afterschool club meetings and sports practices and need a place to get snacks.(2) Visitors to the school campus might appreciate snack and drink machines.
No:(1) Most vending-machine food is not nutritious. (2) There may be more litter on the school grounds from carelessly discarding wrappers and bottles.
Create additional debatable questions for your students. Ask each student to select a question and objectively analyze the viewpoints surrounding that question. Strive to list the same number of affirmative and negative reasons. Share and discuss these lists as a class. Get ready for some lively debates!
From fairy tale characters to current issues, I hope these activities have helped introduce the elements of persuasive writing to your kids in an approachable, hands-on way! Enjoy writing persuasively in your creative writing classes! Name:
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Students will view a famous speech and analyze. Students will then discuss what they feel made those speeches effective. Analyze the speaker's introduction, the support and examples he/she used to solidify his/her argument, and his/her poise, inflection, tone and credibility. Enrichment: Then, have students create their own persuasive speeches. These can be simple, informal or impromptu speeches or longer, research-based formal ones.
What support and examples did they use in their argument?
What was their poise (body language, calmness, elegance, presence of mind, confident)?
How did their inflection and tone sound?
Was the speaker credible? Did you believe them? Could you trust in what they were saying?
Debate Topics and Do’s and Don’ts
Books are better than television. Importance of teachers in education. Should computers replace teachers? Should school uniform be got rid of? Reading - an emerging trend or dying interest? Should mobile phones be allowed in schools? Junk food must be banned in schools. Are Sports and games equally important as studies? School attendance must be voluntary. Homework should be banned. Do violent video games trigger violent behavior in kids? Are online chat rooms for kids necessary? What household chores must kids be allowed to do? Animals should not be kept in cages. Should the school timings be increased? Is there a life on Mars? Do we learn from history? Choosing a career must be based on percentage gained or interest area? Is year round schooling necessary? Participation in extra co-curricular activities is important in schools? Are children over influenced by fashion these days? Should children be involved in television advertising? Should animals be used for scientific experiments? Should skating be allowed on road side walks? Should cartoon cards and accessories be allowed in schools.
Dos Students participating in debates must ensure that they don't forget to:
Greet 'good evening/morning' to respective authority. Stand/Sit well in front of the timekeeper, judges and audience. In case, you're debating in a group that is sitting in a circle, make yourself comfortable. An alert body language displaying keen interest in the debate is necessary in group discussions. Wait for formal announcements before the debate begins. Applaud every speaker positively. Use cue cards that you had prepared for debates properly. Be silent while others are speaking and during judging time when adjudicators are awarding points. Be in proper and neat uniform as per the occasion. Arrive early before the scheduled time for debate. Coming 15 minutes before the scheduled time is good to make you comfortable at the venue. Accept defeat positively and learn from mistakes. Ultimately, have fun.
Don'ts Students must avoid certain pitfalls while debating, like: Don't forget to greet important personnel like chairman etc. If adjudicators are a part of audience (they generally are), then you needn't greet them. Don't include some team line or your school team punch before beginning the debate. Don't use long sheets of paper to make a note of your arguments for debates. Proper dress, hairstyle and presentation is crucial. This is to ensure that your mannerisms and appearance is not such that it distracts audience. Remember, they have come there to listen to you and hence don't diverge their attention by being differently dressed or in some crazy style. In group discussions, don't interrupt other speakers personally or erratically. Be in the constraints of debate rules. Using improper/derogatory comments must be avoided. Ensure facts and figures are correct.