persuasive speaking – Teaching English Language Arts

Students Starters Enhance Teaching

August 10, 2020November 22, 2020 by admin

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Student Starters in Virtual Setting Now is a good time to plan on releasing more responsibility for learning to your students. The first quarter/semester is when you model reading and writing strategies, making, connections, incorporating a wide variety of examples in your own instruction, and also informing the students that…

Values, Beliefs and Attitudes

August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 by admin

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It's important to know the values, beliefs, and attitudes that motivate behavior in order to write an effective persuasive speech or argumentative essay. It also is important to understand ways that speakers and authors reveal these motivators in their writing. Tasks: Locate website for creating word clouds as a kick-off…

Celebrate and Educate

January 5, 2019February 24, 2020 by admin

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Black History Month and Common Core In the United States, February is Black (African-American) History Month, a time when many teachers tailor lessons to feature the contributions of African-Americans. Since the oral tradition is significant in African-American history, and since oral language skill is one of the English Language Arts…

Advertisement Analysis Assignment

October 28, 2018April 29, 2020 by admin

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Persuasion - Advertisements One way to introduce students to the power of persuasion and to show them evidence of logical fallacies is to have them analyze advertisements in print and digital media. You can have students write and post their analysis or present their findings in a speech using visual…

Language Arts Resources

September 7, 2018April 28, 2020 by admin

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General Overview of ELA Resources Welcome to my website. Click on any of the lines to sample explanations, assignments, and other resources to enhance teaching and improve learning. GENERAL GRADING GUIDELINES General Grading Guidelines for Written Assignments General Grading Guidelines - SLIDES BOOK REPORTS Collage on Common Book or Story…

ADD TO YOUR 2017-2018 TEACHING TOOLBOX

August 24, 2017August 24, 2017 by admin

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Fresh Strategies to Consider Teachers are generous colleagues and share what works for them in hopes that you'll see it try ideas that you can adapt, engage, and reach more students. Having taught middle school through graduate school students, I find that many of the strategies are interchangeable, especially those that…

Evaluating Proposed Solutions

September 30, 2016September 30, 2016 by admin

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Educators today are using blogs as a way for students to practice writing persuasive and argumentative essays based on current events. Some middle and high school teachers are not sure how to guide their students in ways that will assure the proposed solutions backed by solid evidence. Some students are unclear about how…

Prep for Argumentative Speech or Essay

September 11, 2013September 6, 2013 by admin

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Argumentative Speech or Essay: Prep is Key Students sometimes misunderstand the subtleties of persuasive and argumentative speaking and writing. Showing this Monty Python video many inspire your students to flesh out their speeches and essays with reasons their listeners/readers should think seriously about ideas presented for their consideration. Whether the…

Human Interest Story

July 20, 2013September 6, 2013 by admin

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Journalism: Organizing Article With what prestigious award will you be honored in 25 years? Paragraph 1 Who, what, when, where, why, and how about award ceremony Paragraph 2 Education and career of winner (you in 25 years) Paragraph 3 Others who have won the honor in the past Paragraph…

A Lesson Before Dying – Journaling

April 11, 2013October 27, 2013 by admin

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Journaling about Reading Keeping a journal as they read helps prepare students for more engaging discussion and elaborated writing. When they have thought deeply about key issues and written words, phrases and sentences to record those thoughts, students are more likely to speak up with confident and write with authority.…

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