If your students struggle with reading and writing articles, you need a go-to resource that can help them integrate knowledge and skills to help them finally understand this informational text type. Now you finally have it! This bundle combines theory and practice to help your students learn to read and write articles effectively. The bundle consists of an informative presentation and an engaging article analysis stations activity. Presentation This presentation is a clear, concise, and visually appealing guide to teaching the fundamentals of newspaper articles. It offers important general information about the typical features of newspaper articles, including audience, purpose and layout. Through this presentation, your students will learn: What articles are What their audience and purpose are What register is used when writing articles What is the structure of an article Do’s and don’ts of article introductions How to end their article with an appropriate and effective conclusion Article analysis stations activity Getting high-school students to analyze long persuasive articles can be such a challenge! This stations activity solves that problem by breaking the task down into manageable smaller chunks. The students are guided through the analysis through a series of questions that help them discover the layers of meaning in the text. The questions are grouped into four categories: Content, Audience, Purpose and tone, Form and structure and Language This helps students understand how individual words the author uses are linked with whole-text elements like audience, purpose and tone and how all the individual elements work together to create a unified, meaningful whole. The fact that the task is broken down into easy-to-understand sections enables even the most confused learners to make sense of what they’re reading and analyze it, and at the same time allows more advanced students to showcase their in-depth knowledge. The procedure is simple: Divide your students into groups, hand out the texts and the question cards and start the stations activity! A detailed answer key is provided, so no prep is needed on your part! If you prefer to use a more traditional approach, I’ve also grouped all the questions into a simple, beautiful worksheet, and the best part is, you can use the worksheet or the cards for any article or text, not just the one given here! Use the questions to help students prepare for standardized exams or just as regular classroom practice and review. If you enjoy this resource, please leave a review.

This big new persuasive writing bundle includes six excellent resources to help your students understand persuasive writing and using different rhetorical techniques and appeals and apply that knowledge in real life: Persuasive techniques presentation Persuasive techniques posters Advertisement analysis project Persuasive letter worksheets (digital and printable) Speech analysis stations: Frederick Douglass 4th July speech Guided article analysis stations The bundle includes: a 38-slide presentation with detailed teacher’s notes an engaging interactive Kaboom! game with 60 revision questions 12 posters with definitions, examples and effects of different persuasive techniques a motivating advertisement analysis project that helps student understand how persuasion works in real life detailed ready-to-go printable and digital worksheets for analyzing a persuasive letter a ready-made stations activity for analysing Frederick dogulss ‘What to the American Slave is 4th July’ speech a ready-made stations activity for article analysis PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES PRESENTATION This fully editable 38-slide presentation offers an in-depth look into the most commonly used rhetorical devices, including: alliteration, anecdote, rhetorical questions, imperative, personal pronouns, exaggeration/hyperbole, facts, opinions, repetition, emotive language, statistics and triplets/list of three. The presentation contains information about the definition, examples and effects of every technique. This helps students understand: what the technique is how it’s used in everyday speech and literature and how it helps persuade the reader to agree with the author The pack also includes 8 pages of detailed teacher’s notes. PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES POSTERS All 12 beautiful and informative posters include the definition of the technique, several examples (from everyday speech and literature) and the possible effects the use of the technique has on the reader (how it helps persuade the reader). The posters are an excellent visual reminder that helps students review and revise the key elements of persuasive writing. ADVERTISEMENT ANALYSIS PROJECT This exciting infomercial analysis project helps students apply their persuasive analysis skills by analyzing infomercials featuring well-known celebrities and familiar products. The project includes: a step-by-step guide a detailed graphic organizer for guided analysis a curated YouTube playlist with 14 carefully-chosen infomercials a grading rubric PERSUASIVE LETTER ANALYSIS WORKSHEETS With these worksheets, students analyze how writers adapt their letters to their target audience and how they use persuasive appeals and techniques. The lesson includes: an original persuasive letter a set of worksheets for analyzing appealing to target audience, use of persuasive appeals and use of persuasive techniques (print and digital versions) teacher instructions detailed answer keys (print and digital versions) A FREE BONUS: My original videos on persuasive techniques: Persuasive techniques playlist Each video contains the definition, examples from everyday life and famous persuasive texts and effects the technique has on the readers. Excellent as exam-prep or simple revision. For more videos focusing on reading and writing skills and exam prep, subscribe to my YouTube channel. If you like this bundle, please leave a review!