Framing Persuasive Arguments Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RL.6.9

Core Standard
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When we are trying to explain that one idea is a better choice than another idea we try to use logic to persuade others. Putting our thoughts into a form of a legitimate argument has to be well planned and often requires validation by other or some form of third-party data to be legitimized. The argument that is built usually is provided by referring to undeniable facts and examples. These worksheets help students get familiar with process of exerting a reasonable argument through writing.

Persuasive Arguments Worksheets:

Introductory Paragraph Review – We breakdown sentences to see what sense we can make of them.

Texting and Flavored Milk – You need to run some sentence rewrites here.

Exams and Smoking – You will need a few partners for this one.

Couponing and Chores – There is a huge hole in some of these sentences. Let's make it work.

Good Parents and School Policy – You'll need a red pen for this.

Listing the Pros and the Cons – Using the given object and verb, create a sentence that uses personification.

The Argument – Write the letter of the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence.

Good Parents – Circle the personification in each sentence.

Pros and Cons – Using the objects or animals in the first box and the human qualities (traits and actions) in the second box, create a short story with at least 5 sentences.

Learning To Read – Put an "X" next to each sentence that uses personification.

School Libraries – Find a famous literary passage that uses several examples of personification or combine several quotes from a book .

Cruel to Animals – Underline the object or thing being personified. Explain what it means and what makes it personification.

Persuasive Essay Examples – Using the objects given, write a small 3-4-sentence biography for each object as if it was human.

More Persuasive Essay Examples – Under each sentence, write what is being personified and what human trait the object is given or what human action the object is doing.

Textbook Training – Write a short 5-sentence story about an animal. Describe and write about what the animal normally does and how it normally acts.

How to Frame a Persuasive Argument


The main goal in presenting any argument is to appeal to the reader or listener. You can get that audience on your side by focusing on a few things. You need to first and foremost appeal to the audience’s sense of reason and duty. This can be established with the use of facts. The facts need to be undisputable. This can often be established by using third-party facts that clearly have no agenda at all. The audience will take a look at the ethos of any facts you present. If you were framing an argument that smoking cigarettes wasn’t as bad as doctors make it out to be, no one will be facts that were gathered or paid for, in anyway, by a tobacco company.


It is often said that in any jury case there are two ways to move a juror to a decision. The first is facts or data and the second is through emotional pleas. The same is true when planning our arguments. Leading listeners to an emotional place can often have them deciding in your direction. This can often be done through using a form of personification in your work and focusing on the use of vivid picture words.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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