Identify individual written selections as technical, narrative, persuasive, and/or descriptive in mode. SPI 0801.3.11

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1. Argument and Persuasive Writing Lesson plans and teaching resources - many lesson resources
2. Expository Essays:
   1. Expository Writing - Eight different examples of expository organizational patterns
   2. Expository Writing Tips! - The information was taken from "Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment Test" by Jane Bell Kiester available through Maupin House Publishing.
   3. Expository Writing Plan - Use this information to help create your essays.
   4. Writing a "How-to" Explanation - Student model as an example
3. Narrative Essays :
   1. Multiple Paragraph Essay - Pointers on writing an essay [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
   2. Narrative Essay - Article and help on writing narrative essay.
   3. Step by step guide - Guide on writing an essay.
   4. Student Writing Tools Handbook - [25 pages] Transitions, rubrics, grammar, citations, and more [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
   5. Template for writing a narrative - Scaffolding guide for students
   6. Writing a Personal Narrative - Student model as an example
4. Personal Narrative - writer's model
5. Persuasive writing
   1. Can you Convince me? - Lesson plan
   2. Graphic Organizer - scaffolding aid for your students as they plan their essay
   3. How are They Selling It? - students read three advertisements and evaluate the type of persuasive writing being employed
   4. Persuasive Writing Prompts from a home schooling site
   5. Scholastic's Writing Workshop - You already spend a lot of time trying to persuade your parents or teachers to allow you to watch more TV or do less homework. Now you can use those same skills to write a persuasive essay!
   6. Writing a Persuasive Essay - Student model as an example
   7. Writing to Persuade - Persuasion means making someone with a different point of view from your own change their mind to your way of thinking.
   8. Writing to Persuade Rubric - Perhaps your students can understand writing to persuade better by seeing this rubric.
6. Sample descriptive essay - advantages and disadvantages of a disability [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
7. Style Manual for Technical Communications - the essence of effective technical communications [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
8. Writing an Editorial -given a topic, create a paper on your position.

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