If your students struggle with reading and writing articles, you need a go-to resource that can help them integrate knowledge and skills to help them finally understand this informational text type. Now you finally have it! This bundle combines theory and practice to help your students learn to read and write articles effectively. The bundle consists of an informative presentation and an engaging article analysis stations activity. Presentation This presentation is a clear, concise, and visually appealing guide to teaching the fundamentals of newspaper articles. It offers important general information about the typical features of newspaper articles, including audience, purpose and layout. Through this presentation, your students will learn: What articles are What their audience and purpose are What register is used when writing articles What is the structure of an article Do’s and don’ts of article introductions How to end their article with an appropriate and effective conclusion Article analysis stations activity Getting high-school students to analyze long persuasive articles can be such a challenge! This stations activity solves that problem by breaking the task down into manageable smaller chunks. The students are guided through the analysis through a series of questions that help them discover the layers of meaning in the text. The questions are grouped into four categories: Content, Audience, Purpose and tone, Form and structure and Language This helps students understand how individual words the author uses are linked with whole-text elements like audience, purpose and tone and how all the individual elements work together to create a unified, meaningful whole. The fact that the task is broken down into easy-to-understand sections enables even the most confused learners to make sense of what they’re reading and analyze it, and at the same time allows more advanced students to showcase their in-depth knowledge. The procedure is simple: Divide your students into groups, hand out the texts and the question cards and start the stations activity! A detailed answer key is provided, so no prep is needed on your part! If you prefer to use a more traditional approach, I’ve also grouped all the questions into a simple, beautiful worksheet, and the best part is, you can use the worksheet or the cards for any article or text, not just the one given here! Use the questions to help students prepare for standardized exams or just as regular classroom practice and review. If you enjoy this resource, please leave a review.

This phenomenal bundle provides you with the materials to teach and practice 12 different persuasive techniques, their definitions, examples and effects. The bundle consists of: presentation with detailed information about each of the 12 persuasive techniques (with detailed teacher’s notes) matching cards that enable students to revise and practice what they learned in the presentation Together, these two resources help your students learn about persuasive techniques quickly and effectively. PRESENTATION For successful argumentative writing and analysis, students need to be very familiar with persuasive devices. This fully editable 38-slide presentation offers an in-depth look into the most commonly used rhetorical devices, including: alliteration, anecdote, rhetorical questions, imperative, personal pronouns, exaggeration/hyperbole, facts, opinions, repetition, emotive language, statistics and triplets/list of three. The techniques are organized into a simple, easy-to-remember acronym: A RIPE FOREST. The presentation contains information about the definition, examples and effects of every technique. This helps students understand: what the technique is how it’s used in everyday speech and literature and how it helps persuade the reader to agree with the author The pack also includes 8 pages of detailed teacher’s notes. MATCHING CARDS Understanding the definitions, examples and effects of different persuasive techniques can be difficult and confusing. Students often struggle to grasp these concepts and apply that knowledge in their own writing and analysis. This set of matching cards that can be used for revision and practice is an excellent way to your students build a strong foundation in understanding how different persuasive devices work. The set focuses on the following persuasive techniques (contained in the acronym A RIPE FOREST): alliteration anecdote rhetorical questions imperative personal pronouns exaggeration/hyperbole facts opinions repetition emotive language statistics triplets/list of three The set consists of: 12 technique cards 12 definition cards 36 example cards (three for each technique) 27 effects cards (some effects can apply to several different techniques)