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Save the Turkey Persuasive Writing Unit

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Cover of Save the Turkey Persuasive Writing Unit, a Thanksgiving project organized around four daily lessons
Cover of the Thanksgiving persuasive writing unit
Unit overview lists four days: persuasive writing and brainstorming, rough draft, peer editing, and publishing
Four-day writing lesson sequence
Day 1 brainstorming lesson asks students to propose an alternative to turkey with three reasons and evidence
Day 1 lesson plan: brainstorming a claim
Day 2 rough draft lesson models the draft template and asks students to write using their brainstorming organizer
Day 2 lesson plan: developing a rough draft
Day 3 peer editing lesson checks persuasive tone, three reasons, supporting evidence, and readable handwriting
Day 3 lesson plan: editing with a partner
Day 4 publishing lesson models revising from peer feedback and checking final writing with a persuasive checklist
Day 4 lesson plan: revising and publishing
What's for Dinner? writing prompt asks students to speak as a turkey and persuade humans to eat another main course
Writing prompt introducing the turkey's perspective
Thanksgiving brainstorming organizer asks for an alternative dinner claim, three reasons, and evidence for each
Planning organizer for the turkey's argument
Rough draft template begins with an introduction stating the claim and reasons, then body paragraphs with evidence
Rough draft template, part 1: introduction and body
Rough draft template continues body paragraphs and guides a conclusion with a challenge, question, or restated ideas
Rough draft template, part 2: body and conclusion
Attributes
Subject

Holiday & Seasonal, Holidays, Thanksgiving

Grades

Grade 3, 4, 5

Types

Lesson Plans, Teacher Tools

File

PDF

Editable
No
Author
That One Cheerful Classroom
Rating
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About This Product

Save the Turkey Persuasive Writing Unit is an engaging project for your students during the Thanksgiving season.

It comes with 4 days worth of mini lessons.

Students will get to brainstorm, develop a rough draft, do peer editing and publish their work with this unit.

All you have to do is print and go.

What's Included

14-page PDF

Resource Tags

Thanksgiving November Save the Turkey persuasive writing rough draft rubric graphic organizer peer editing writing checklist

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