LESSON PLAN: Using Newpaper Editorials to Teach Persuasive Writing

[Frank W. Baker]

Teaching students to write short, newspaper editorials can help them craft evidence-based persuasive essays and learn how such writing works in a real-world scenario, Michael Gonchar writes in this New York Times Learning Network post. Noting that editorials often are collaborative efforts, Gonchar suggests students work in pairs or groups, such as posting ideas to class wikis or blogs, among other ideas