This week in our writers workshop time, we started a new genre called “persuasive writing”. A persuasive story gives a point of view and tries to persuade the reader to agree. We all know that first graders are passionate about many things (like what toy they think they should receive this holiday season, recycling, changing their bed time etc...) Persuasive writing gives them an outlet to express some of these ideas. They will be taught how to use examples and give reasons to persuade, use a particular incident to persuade, use transitional phrases (This is important because... Another reason is... For example...), and imagine their audience.
We just read this book called "Hey Little Ant". It is a great persuasive story about a kid who is giving reasons why he should squish the ant on the sidewalk, and the ant is giving reasons back why the boy should let him live. After reading the book, we all decided for ourselves if we think the boy should squish him, or let him live. Then we filled out our organizer and gave reasons to support our decision. Here is Linda's persuasive writing organizer... she thinks the boy should let the ant live...
Our first persuasive stories are coming out GREAT!
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