5th grade teachers combined the literary skills (analyzing the attributes of persuasive text and developing persuasive writing skills) for
both reading and writing into a persuasive ChatterPix project.
Working cooperatively, students created a drawing for a specialty product, planned their “commercial” using
the “Commercial Planning Tool” page from Stead and Hoyt’s Explorations in
Nonfiction Writing (as well as a teacher-created rubric), then recorded their
commercial using the free app, ChatterPix. The results were entertaining and verified the students’ levels of
understanding of persuasive text.
Below are two finished examples:
Below are two finished examples: