Are your students learning how to write persuasive essays? If so, you might be looking for a way to assess their work that is clear and fair. After all, persuasive essays are not easy. They have to adequately convey an argument while still maintaining stylistic coherence and organization. One great way to assess your students' writing is by using a rubric. Rubrics allow you to think about exactly which categories of a student's writing are most important to you as a teacher. Then, you establish clear criteria for how they can succeed in each of these categories. Of course, categories will look different for each teacher, and you will need to think about what you most want to emphasize as important to your students. Students usually appreciate rubrics for the clarity they offer and also because they show that every student is being held to the same standards. When you use a rubric, you will probably find grading easier because you will know exactly what you are looking for! The rubric examples in this lesson will help you grade your students' persuasive essays; however, you can modify them to make them your own.
Rubric For Persuasive Essay Middle School
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Use this kid-friendly rubric to help your students peer-review their persuasive essays. This rubric reinforces the five parts of a strong argument. It is a great follow-up to the other worksheets in the argument writing series.
In a persuasive essay or argument essay, the student strives to convince the reader of the merits of their opinion or stance on a particular issue. The student must utilise several persuasive techniques to form a coherent and logical argument to convince the reader of a point of view or to take a specific action.
We cover the broad topic of writing a general persuasive essay in this guide, there are several sub-genres of persuasive texts students will encounter as they progress through school. We have complete guides on these text types, so be sure to click the links and read these in detail if required.
A Call to Action: A staple of advertising, a call to action can also be used in persuasive writing. When employed, it usually forms part of the conclusion section of the essay and asks the reader to do something, such as recycle, donate to charity, sign a petition etc.
Below are a collection of persuasive essay samples. Click on the image to enlarge and explore them in greater detail. Please take a moment to read the persuasive texts in detail and the teacher and student guides highlight some of the critical elements of writing a persuasion.
As we all know grading is the most necessary procedures of our career. It might just be me, but grading is the bane of my existence. Do you feel the same way? Grading large works, especially towards the end of the school year, feels like it is an endless and mindless process. I remember a few years back when I helped grade over 4,000 essays from a neighboring school district. The only thing I can relate the feeling of completing that grading session was giving birth to my daughter.
Not only do rubrics lead to better equality in assessment, but it gives you standard that will help you understand exactly what you are looking for in the quality of work. That can even be translated to students to help them achieve that higher standard. You might want to give it a try with your students. The next time you give your class a large assignment that produces a product (essay, poster, presentation); provide students with 3 versions of the product and rubric to assess. Insure that each product differs greatly in quality. As a class review and rate these products based on the rubric. There is no clearer way to display your expectations. I have gone as to have students rate their own products prior to grading. If they match my score, I give them extra credit. 2ff7e9595c
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