Persuasive Writing and New Hampshire Project

Before February break, students began listening to  persuasive stories  and reading persuasive articles . We thought about what the writer's opinion (issue or concern) is, who the writer was writing to (audience), and why was the writer writing this story or article (purpose, what were they trying to get people to agree to). This unit will take us a few weeks to understand about persuading with examples, reasons,  stated opinion, etc. 

 Fourth graders learn all about the Granite State , from landmarks, to places and famous people. To begin the unit , we created a word splash. I quickly scribed every word that came to these 4th grader's mind when I said, " New Hampshire." 

In addition, we have new reading groups as we indulge ourselves in reading an informational book, Uniquely New Hampshire  by Peter Melman. We began by reviewing why we read informational books and why the text features are there to help us with non-fiction books.