A Strategy for Persuasive Writing POW + TREE A Strategy for Persuasive Writing

Develop Background Knowledge What skills need explicit instruction? Given a prompting question can the student: Decide what he or she believes? Respond clearly writing those beliefs? Given a graphic organizer and information ,can the student appropriately fill in the organizer? Given his or her topic sentence, can the student provide up to three written reasons to support the topic sentence? Given his or her topic sentence and reasons to support that topic sentence, can the student elaborate on those reasons? Given the topic sentence, reasons to support , and elaborations, can the student compose a statement summarizing the information? Given the information in a graphic organizer, can the student construct a complete paragraph?

Discuss the strategy Why persuasive writing is important POW + TREE tool can help improve the writing POW gives you POWer when you write Help remember parts of a persuasive essay Help Organize ideas

Model POW + TREE Strategy P Pick my idea O Organize my notes using TREE T Topic Sentence Tell what you believe R Reasons 3 or more E Examples Why do I believe this? Will my readers believe it? E Ending Wrap it up right! W Write and say more.

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Encourage Independent Use Promote Memorization Have students practice in pairs with cue cards Provide Scaffolded Support Poster >Student Made Cue Cards (w/o poster)> >No Cue Cards Encourage Independent Use Are the students actually using the strategy? Has their writing performance improved? Do the students see the strategy as valuable? Can they use the strategy in other expository writing assignments (e.g., compare and contrast)?

References The IRIS Center for Training Enhancements. (2006). Improving writing performance: A strategy for writing expository essays. Retrieved on [February 24, 2011] from http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/pow/chalc ycle.htm Harris, K. R., Graham, S., Mason, L., & Friedlander, B. (2008). Powerful writing strategies for all students. Baltimore, MD: Brookes.

References Project Write http://hobbs.vanderbilt.edu/projectwrite/