Name:SamanthaHester Grade Level: 2 nd Grade Title of

Lesson: Persuasive Writing

Content Area(s) Reading, Writing, and Communicating

Boettcher
Teacher Quality
Standard(s) 3. Writing and Composition Standards:
Appendix I

Prepared Graduates
Grade Level Expectations
Concepts and Skills
Students Master
STANDARDS-BASED LESSON PLAN
Know Content
Implement the writing process successfully to Establish
plan, revise, and edit written work Environment
Second Grade Facilitate Learning
Reflect on Practice
2. Exploring the writing process helps to plan and Demonstrate
draft a variety of simple informational texts
Leadership (TPR)
Student Growth

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Evidence Outcomes 21 Century Skills and Readiness Competencies
Write informative/explanatory texts in which they (Critical Thinking/Reasoning, Information Literacy, Collaboration, Self-
Direction, Invention)
introduce a topic, use faces and definitions to Critical Thinking
develop points, and provide a concluding statement Collaboration
or section DOK L2
Essential/Guiding Questions
What is an informative text and why is it
important?
How can we use informative texts?
Establish Environment

(Grouping, Expected Behaviors) Students will meet on carpet and face whiteboard
 Standards Driven Instructional I can write a persuasive argument and support it with facts. (LO)
Objective(s)/Learning Target(s) DOK Level 2

Assessment

Students will record their writing and turn it in.

Facilitate Learning:

Instructional Plans and Students will meet on carpet and on a large piece of chart paper the words
Procedures Persuasive Writing will be written. Student will be asked what is persuasive
writing? What would we use persuasive writing for? Student will turn and talk to
share answers. Afterwards, a couple of students will be called upon to share
their responses.

Student will be told that they are going to listen to a persuasive story and be
asked to listen for what the author is trying to persuade us of. Student will then
be read the picture book, Why should we protect nature?

Students will be asked what the book was about. Was it persuasive?

Students will be asked to think of an issue that they care about and write a
persuasive text.

Differentiation: A couple sheets will be blank and a couple sheets will have the
sentence starter We should __________ because _________
 Data Analysis
How do you know whether
students learned what you
hoped they would?
What evidence do you have of
student learning?
Reflect on Practice
How did the lesson go?
How was your feedback to
students?
What might you do differently
next time?
How has this experience helped
shape your understandings
about teaching and learning?
Are there any areas in which
you need to grow professionally
(knowledge, critical thinking,
management, delivery)?
9 out of 9 second graders were able to complete the task and write persuasive
statements.
When the lesson began and I was asking the students what it means to
persuade someone, all the students gave me blank stares. So I really had to
break down the concept for them and use oversimplified terms to define it. So a
the beginning of the lesson, I was worrying that it was going over their heads.
However, after I read the text Why we should protect nature, I could see the
light bulbs starting to go off.
The students were able to write persuasive statements. However, I feel like they
could dig deeper in their reasons for why we should do something. So tomorrow
when I teach the continuation of the lesson, I think I will adapt it so the students
have to give 2-3 reasons why, rather than just one reason.