Persuasive Text Prompts
3rd Grade
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.21*
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Students write persuasive texts to influence the attitudes or actions of a specific audience on specific issues. Students are expected to write persuasive essays for appropriate audiences that establish a position and use supporting details. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
3.W.1.a
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Introduce the topic or text, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons. |
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.3.1a
Georgia Math and ELA Standards:
ELAGSE3W1a
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.3.1.a
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.3.1a
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.3.1.b
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Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
3W1a
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Introduce a claim, supported by details, and organize the reasons and evidence
logically. |
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.W.TTP.1.a
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Introduce a topic or text.
3.W.TTP.1.c - Create an organizational structure that lists supporting reasons. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
3.W.1.b
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.3.1b
Georgia Math and ELA Standards:
ELAGSE3W1b
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.3.1.b
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.3.1b
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.3.1.c
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Provide reasons that support the opinion. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
3W1b
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Use precise language and content-specific vocabulary. |
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.W.TTP.1.b
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Develop an opinion with reasons that support the opinion. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
3.W.1.c
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Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons. |
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.3.1c
Georgia Math and ELA Standards:
ELAGSE3W1c
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.3.1.c
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.3.1c
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.W.TTP.1.e
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Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons. |
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.3.1.d
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Use linking words and phrases to connect opinion and reasons. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
3W1c
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Use linking words and phrases to connect ideas within categories of information. |
Ohio's Learning Standards:
W.3.1.c
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Use linking words and phrases (e.g.,
because, therefore, since, for example) to
connect opinion and reasons. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
3.W.1.d
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.3.1d
Georgia Math and ELA Standards:
ELAGSE3W1d
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
W.3.1.d
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
W.3.1d
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
W.3.1.e
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
3W1d
Tennessee Academic Standards:
3.W.TTP.1.d
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Provide a concluding statement or section. |
New Jersey Student Learning Standards:
W.3.1.D
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Provide a conclusion. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.G
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Write opinion pieces on familiar topics or texts |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.H
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Introduce the topic and state an opinion on the topic. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.I
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Support an opinion with reasons. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.J
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Create an organizational structure that includes reasons linked in a logical order with a concluding statement or section |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.K
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Use a variety of words and sentence types to appeal to the audience.
- E03.D.1.1.9 - Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
- E03.D.2.1.1 Choose words and phrases for effect.
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.3.L
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Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling - E03.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
- E03.D.1.1.2 - Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
- E03.D.1.1.3 - Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).
- E03.D.1.1.4 - Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
- E03.D.1.1.5 - Form and use the simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk).
- E03.D.1.1.6 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. *
- E03.D.1.1.7 - Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
- E03.D.1.1.8 - Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
- E03.D.1.1.9 - Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
- E03.D.1.2.1 - Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
- E03.D.1.2.2 -Use commas in addresses.
- E03.D.1.2.3 - Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
- E03.D.1.2.4 - Form and use possessives.
- E03.D.1.2.5 - Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).
- E03.D.1.2.6 - Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words
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Arkansas Academic Standards:
3.W.1.S
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Write an opinion to convince the reader to take an action or adopt a position with logical reasons supported by evidence from various sources. |
Georgia Math and ELA Standards:
3.L.V.1.b
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Use grade-level general, academic, and specialized vocabulary words and phrases to enhance communication in a variety of settings. (C) |
Georgia Math and ELA Standards:
3.T.C.1.c
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Create multimodal texts, using features of pre-selected modes for a specific purpose and audience. (C) |
Georgia Math and ELA Standards:
3.T.T.3.c
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Apply opinion techniques to create opinion pieces that introduce the topic, state an opinion about the topic, supply reasons to support the opinion with linking words (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect the opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section. (C) |
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