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  1. Argument Games! Play These Fun Games to Practice Analyzing Arguments

    These fun and engaging argument games will get your students reading for their analyzing rhetoric unit or their argumentative writing unit! Students will be moving and collaborating while practicing critical argumentation skills!

  2. Teaching Argumentation and Persuasion: 6 Engaging Activities

    There are many engaging activities to use when teaching argumentation and persuasion beyond the classic essay. While the argumentative essay can certainly be effective, try something new with one of these 6 engaging activities. Your students will be excited and eager to apply argumentation and persuasion in the classroom and beyond.

  3. Argument Games for Secondary ELA

    Strategy is part of the game. Students will have fun trying to outwit their opponents while practicing argumentation. Grab this game along with seven others in this bundle of Argument Games! These games are sure to get your students arguing for the right reasons and engaging more in the persuasive process. Do you have any other argument games ...

  4. 130 New Prompts for Argumentative Writing

    Questions on everything from mental health and sports to video games and dating. Which ones inspire you to take a stand?

  5. 101 Argument Essay Prompts for High School

    Teaching argument writing can be very exciting, especially if you have great argument essay prompts for your students to choose from. It provides students with an opportunity to explore interesting topics. I give my students choices when I teach argument writing in my classroom. Students who select their topics are more engaged with and connected to their writing.

  6. Engaging Strategies for Teaching Persuasion, Argument, and Debate

    Engaging strategies to teach persuasion, argument, and debate in middle or high school ELA: activities, lessons, ideas and resources

  7. 300 Questions and Images to Inspire Argument Writing

    300 Questions and Images to Inspire Argument Writing. We categorized 300 of our recent Student Opinion and Picture Prompts by topic to help students practice writing arguments about the issues ...

  8. 10 Argumentative Writing Tasks That Are NOT Another Paper

    When it comes to teaching argumentative writing, there are so many ways to allow students to demonstrate what they have learned. You absolutely do not need to write a full paper each time you're teaching a specific skill. Consider alternative tasks to a paper such as letters, video, speeches, etc. Here's why you should consider scrapping ...

  9. The Unique Argumentative Writing Group Game That Will Blow Up Your

    Writing an argumentative essay can be a real challenge for students. Many times students find it difficult to understand how to write an argument, support their claims or craft a rebuttal. ARGUETROPIA, argumentative writing group game, is here to save the day! Before getting down to writing that argumentative essay, start your students' journey with ARGUETROPIA. It is a fun real life ...

  10. Using Games and Strategies to Learn Through Argument

    A MiddleWeb Blog Reading Mary Ehrenworth, Pablo Wolfe and Marc Todd's latest professional development book, The Civically Engaged Classroom, gave me a new mindset on teaching argument writing to students, based on the idea of arguing to learn.

  11. Argumentative Essay Activities

    The following activities are set up to help students work out the argument and supporting ideas for an essay topic, to help them write the actual essay afterward.

  12. 3 Argument Writing Activities my Students Loved!

    This blog post describes three student-led argument writing activities for AP Lang or high school English teachers.

  13. Argumentative Writing Unit

    Writing prompts, lesson plans, webinars, mentor texts and a culminating contest, all to inspire your students to tell us what matters to them.

  14. Argumentative Essay Fun Activities Teaching Resources

    Browse argumentative essay fun activities resources on Teachers Pay Teachers, a marketplace trusted by millions of teachers for original educational resources.

  15. Thesis Statement Throwdown!

    Here's how it works: Step 1: Write an essay prompt on the board. I vary my questions between informative and argumentative topics. KQED's Do Now series is an excellent place to grab writing prompts! Step 2: Put students into small groups and give them 5 minutes to construct a solid thesis statement in response to the essay question.

  16. Making Persuasive Writing Fun to Teach and Learn

    How do you make persuasive writing fun in the classroom? Lots of the time, teachers and students alike don't enjoy writing lessons. It can be a challenge getting ALL students motivated to put pencil to paper.

  17. A First Day of School Activity that Teaches Argumentation

    I have several goals for this activity: Begin learning and making arguments on Day 1. Begin demonstrating the collaborative, creative, and awesome nature of arguments. The point of an argument isn't winning, but rather it's getting to the bottom of things. ( <-Totally tweet that.) If we were to indulge in a (probably short) argument about the ...

  18. Argumentative Essay Group Activities & Worksheets

    These fun reading stations and writing stations activities are sure to engage students as they read fiction, nonfiction, and poetry texts, engage in small group discussion, and revise any essay writing assignment, including expository, argumentative, literary analysis, and more!

  19. 10 Ways to Teach Argument-Writing With The New York Times

    Every year, we invite teenagers to channel their passions into formal pieces: short, evidence-based persuasive essays like the editorials The New York Times publishes every day.

  20. Practice: Argumentative Thesis Statements

    Evaluate an argumentative thesis. In the practice exercises below, you will use the information you learned in the previous reading to help you recognize and evaluate argumentative thesis statements. Keep in mind that a sound argumentative thesis should be debatable, assertive, reasonable, evidence based, and focused.

  21. Argumentative Thesis Overview

    Argumentative Thesis Overview Are you ready to review what you have learned about argumentative thesis statements? The video below will help with that. Be sure the volume on your computer is turned up as you review information on building a strong thesis statement for your argumentative essay.

  22. 10.2: Introduction to Argumentative Thesis Statements

    10.2: Introduction to Argumentative Thesis Statements - Humanities LibreTexts. school Campus Bookshelves. menu_book Bookshelves. perm_media Learning Objects. login Login.

  23. Argument Jack Flashcards

    False. Sean is writing an argument essay claiming that violent games do not cause children to become more aggressive. He is incorporating a source from a journal on adolescent behavior which asserts male children between 9-13 who play violent video games participated in more aggressive acts over a two-month observation period than did male ...