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Writing to Persuade: Minilessons to Help Students Plan, Draft, and Revise, Grades 3-8

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First off, I must say that I am not a big fan of "canned curriculum" but I decided to try a workshop approach to persuasive writing this year since I am doing Writer's Workshop in my 3rd grade class. I have always used more of a guided writing format for persuasive writing in the past, since it is so difficult to teach. I work at a small school and am the only third grade teacher and I felt like I needed some guidance in tackling persuasive writing in Writers Workshop. This books lesson-by-lesson support gave me the courage to face persuasive writing in a more organic form. There is a lesson map at the beginning of the book which tells you which lessons to do for what grade level. Obviously, all lessons are appropriate for third grade. It pretty much gives you verbatim minilessons to introduce each phase of the writing with your class (which is nice for the first time through). The author also offers support on how to handle issue that may (and will) come up throughout the process. I would definitely recommend this book to any teacher wanting to use the Workshop approach to teach Persuasive Writing. The second grade teacher at my school even adapted it for his class.