A Collins Writing Program Workshop The Book Commercial Perfect Assignment for Readers and Writers Activities and Strategies to Strengthen Reading and Writing Skills with Bill Atwood 617-686-2330 Free ELA Resources at Book Commercial PowerPoint Two Skills in One: Summarizing and Sentence Combining (PowerPoint for Students) Opinion Unit The Book Commercial An Overview for Students Summary: Millions of dollars are spent advertising movies and video games, but have you ever seen a book commercial? Because I want you to read a lot and to become great writers, this year we are going to prepare commercials to advertise great books. This assignment will be one or two short paragraphs. Purpose: This is a combination of opinion writing and persuasive writing. You’ve got to convince people to read your book! Writer’s role: You are an advertising whiz! You know how to write a strong opinion with enough evidence to convince your audience. Your audience is people who haven’t read the book, and they may or may not be interested. Be Audience: honest, but try to get them to want to read your book! Form: A short one to two paragraph book commercial.
A Collins Writing Program Workshop The Book Commercial Perfect Assignment for Readers and Writers Activities and Strategies to Strengthen Reading and Writing Skills with Bill Atwood 617-686-2330 Free ELA Resources at Book Commercial PowerPoint Two Skills in One: Summarizing and Sentence Combining Opinion Unit (PowerPoint for Students) The Book Commercial An Overview for Students Summary: Millions of dollars are spent advertising movies and video games, but have you ever seen a book commercial? Because I want you to read a lot and to become great writers, this year we are going to prepare commercials to advertise great books. This assignment will be one or two short paragraphs. Purpose: This is a combination of opinion writing and persuasive writing. You’ve got to convince people to read your book! Writer’s role: You are an advertising whiz! You know how to write a strong opinion with enough evidence to convince your audience. Audience: Your audience is people who haven’t read the book, and they may or may not be interested. Be honest, but try to get them to want to read your book! Form: A short one to two paragraph book commercial.
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