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Using Persuasive Devices – Living in a Treehouse
A worksheet for students to practice using persuasive devices in their writing.
Authors use different persuasive techniques in their writing for many reasons. It might be to sell a product or a service to someone or to convince the reader to feel the same way they do about a particular issue or idea.
Use this worksheet to reinforce the following persuasive devices with your students:
- alliteration
- opinion
- emotive language
- rhetorical questions.
As an extension activity, have your students write a persuasive letter to their parents using the sentences from this worksheet.
Due to the nature of the activity, an answer key has not been provided.
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Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.1
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1
Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
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Addition by Natalie Aug 5th, 2020
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