Persuasive Thanksgiving Writing
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- Develop informational, narrative, persuasive, holiday themed, and opinion writing pieces through high interest mentor texts and writing prompts. There are also writing lessons for each type of writing to keep your teaching in writing engaging and purposeful. Why will these writing units help your st$52.80$66.00Save $13.20
Description
Have your students write a persuasive essay on why they should or should not be eaten on Thanksgiving. This full writing process uses the book "The Great Turkey Race" by Steve Metzger and/or "Turk and Runt" by Lisa Wheeler! The students will take their imagination into the life of a turkey to create this hilarious persuasive writing piece!
In this unit:
-Persuasive Writing Anchor Charts
-Anchor Charts for their Notebooks
-Persuasive Writing Interactive Lesson
-"Turk and Runt" and "The Great Turkey Race" reflection questions for after reading
-Pre-Writing Sheet (multi-paragraph and single paragraph choice)
-Rough Draft Sheet
-Final Copy Writing Sheet
-Student Checklist
-Rubric
-Classbook Cover
What are others saying?!
Hailey- This was so fun to do the week of thanksgiving break! My kiddos really got into it and worked hard!
Kara- Fun activity to use around Thanksgiving time. I used some of the activities in my guided reading groups after having read one of the books whole group and it worked out very nicely!
Meagan- Great product that helped bring our writing to life! Thank you for creating such a comprehensive product! I will be using it for years to come.
If you want all types of genres for writing with mentor texts check out this bundle!