Pleeaaasseeee!!!!!

We just finished working on opinion and persuasive writing. We learned that writers have an opening and closing sentence and give reasons to persuade someone to believe what they believe.

We started learning about persuasive writing by reading "I Wanna Iguana" by Karen Kaufman Orloff and illustrated by David Catrow.

Enjoy Karen Kaufman Orloff's website.

To practice our craft of writing, the children were asked to write their teachers a letter to persuade us   to get a class pet. As you can imagine, there was great sadness when they learned we weren't persuaded to get a class pet. To soften the blow, each child made and named their very own class pet.

Take a look at some of our writing and class pets.
          

Essential Question: What are elements of a good persuasive piece?