Nov 14 2009
The Best Online Resources For Helping Students Learn To Write Persuasive Essays
We’re just beginning our Persuasive Essay unit in Intermediate English, and I thought I’d identify some relevant sites. I’ll also be converting this list into a more student-accessible post on our Intermediate English class blog.
Other “The Best…” lists that we use during this unit include:
The Best Sites To Learn About Street Gangs
The Best Sites For ELL’s To Learn About The Dangers Of Smoking
The Best Sites To Learn About Advertising
The Best Online Interactive Exercises For Writing That Are Not Related To Literary Analysis
Here are my choices for The Best Online Resources For Helping Students Learn To Write Persuasive Essays:
Here’s a Fact and Opinion game.
Try another Fact and Opinion Game.
Here are lots of fact and opinion activities.
PBS’ Arthur has a simple Facts and Opinions game.
It’s A Fact! is an online activity from Scholastic.
Making Connections is another exercise from Scholastic.
Argument is an activity from the BBC. Other activities connected to it are:
The BBC has another activity called Argue, Persuade, and Advise. Revise is a connected exercise.
Earthlings, Unite! is an interactive sample persuasive essay.
The Joystick of Learning is another interactive sample essay.
Hungry Students Can’t Study is one more sample essay, though it’s not interactive.
Here’s an accessible tutorial on writing a persuasive essay from Great Source.
Students can quickly and easily create a “map” of their persuasive essay here and post its url on a student or teacher website.
I like this persuasive essay outline generator a lot.
Persuasion Map is from Read Write Think, but it can only be printed-out, not saved.
ESL Bee has a number of sample persuasive essays written by ESL students.
“Seeing The Forest Through The Trees” is a post I wrote about teaching the Persuasive Essay that teachers might find useful.
As always, feedback is welcome.
If you found this post useful, you might want to explore the other 350 “The Best…” lists and consider subscribing to this blog for free.
3 responses so far
Create a free edublog to get your own comment avatar (and more!)
Larry, I don’t know if you’ve checked out Scholastic’s site for teachers, but in case you haven’t, we’ve got thousands of free resources for teachers and their students, primarily k-8.
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers
you blog looks good and I look forward to exploring it.
David
[Reply]
Dear Larry,
Great list, as usual! I was precisely looking for resources to help my students improve their writing skills and have found some very useful ones here.
I feel deeply indebted to you for all the help I get out of your posts so I’d like to contribute something in return. Below is the link to a site I’ve been using to practise essay writing. I guess you probably know it already, but well, just in case, here it is:
http://www.selfaccess.com/sa_ver2/htm/sa_viewer2.php?SAC=saViewer&SAL=656&PAL=0
Thanks again,
Mary Di Mónaco
[Reply]
[...] 4. Best online tools for persuasive essays http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/11/14/the-best-online-resources-for-helping-students-learn-to... [...]