Persuasive Paragraph and Newspaper Article

Today students wrote their persuasive paragraph, on a topic of their choice. I allowed students to use their filled out "Seeing Both Sides" planning page, and their model paragraph on the "Trick or Treat" article, as a guide while they were writing. I returned students' quiz on the article "Glow in the Dark" and we recorded these marks in each student's work portfolio. Finally, each student was asked to choose a feature news article from one of the copies of the Vancouver Sun newspaper I had in the classroom. Once students found an article of interest to them, they cut out the article and glued it to a piece of paper. Next week, we will consider how these news articles uses all of the features of news stories we have been studying, in preparation for writing our own news stories.