After this lesson you can use some of these strategies to strengthen the supports in your persuasive writing.
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In this lesson we will look at different strategies you can use to support your reasoning. This will help improve your evidence, which will make your persuasive writing more convincing. Most commonly, you have been using examples/explanations to provide evidence, but there are other ways that writers can support their reasoning.
Today we will focus on three strategies, which you can use in your own writing going forward.
Strategies:
Ask questions
Quote someone
Use statistics
Make comparisons
Explain / provide further details
Instructions:
Read this source for more advanced examples of strategies.
Students can use a planner to plan one of their persuasive paragraphs using one of their own opinion statements from last week. They can do some research to help supports for their reasons.
We will take up the article and answers as a class.