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Persuasive Text Prompts

3rd Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 3.21*

Students write persuasive texts to influence the attitudes or actions of a specific audience on specific issues. Students are expected to write persuasive essays for appropriate audiences that establish a position and use supporting details.

Arizona Academic Standards: 3.W.1.a

Introduce the topic or text, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.W.3.1a

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE3W1a

Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS): W.3.1.a

Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards: W.3.1a

North Carolina - Standard Course of Study: W.3.1.b

Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 3W1a

Introduce a claim, supported by details, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.

Tennessee Academic Standards: 3.W.TTP.1.a

Introduce a topic or text.

3.W.TTP.1.c - Create an organizational structure that lists supporting reasons.

Arizona Academic Standards: 3.W.1.b

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.W.3.1b

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE3W1b

Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS): W.3.1.b

Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards: W.3.1b

North Carolina - Standard Course of Study: W.3.1.c

Provide reasons that support the opinion.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 3W1b

Use precise language and content-specific vocabulary.

Tennessee Academic Standards: 3.W.TTP.1.b

Develop an opinion with reasons that support the opinion.

Arizona Academic Standards: 3.W.1.c

Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons.

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.W.3.1c

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE3W1c

Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS): W.3.1.c

Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards: W.3.1c

Tennessee Academic Standards: 3.W.TTP.1.e

Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons.

North Carolina - Standard Course of Study: W.3.1.d

Use linking words and phrases to connect opinion and reasons.

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 3W1c

Use linking words and phrases to connect ideas within categories of information.

Ohio's Learning Standards: W.3.1.c

Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons.

Arkansas Academic Standards: W.3.1.E

Arizona Academic Standards: 3.W.1.d

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.W.3.1d

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE3W1d

Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS): W.3.1.d

Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards: W.3.1d

North Carolina - Standard Course of Study: W.3.1.e

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 3W1d

Tennessee Academic Standards: 3.W.TTP.1.d

Provide a concluding statement or section.

New Jersey Student Learning Standards: W.3.1.D

Provide a conclusion.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.G

Write opinion pieces on familiar topics or texts

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.H

Introduce the topic and state an opinion on the topic.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.I

Support an opinion with reasons.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.J

Create an organizational structure that includes reasons linked in a logical order with a concluding statement or section

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.K

Use a variety of words and sentence types to appeal to the audience.
  • E03.D.1.1.9 - Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
  • E03.D.2.1.1 Choose words and phrases for effect.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.3.L

Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling
  • E03.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.

  • E03.D.1.1.2 - Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.

  • E03.D.1.1.3 - Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).

  • E03.D.1.1.4 - Form and use regular and irregular verbs.

  • E03.D.1.1.5 - Form and use the simple verb tenses (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk).

  • E03.D.1.1.6 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. *

  • E03.D.1.1.7 - Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.

  • E03.D.1.1.8 - Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

  • E03.D.1.1.9 - Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.

  • E03.D.1.2.1 - Capitalize appropriate words in titles.

  • E03.D.1.2.2 -Use commas in addresses.

  • E03.D.1.2.3 - Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.

  • E03.D.1.2.4 - Form and use possessives.

  • E03.D.1.2.5 - Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).


  • E03.D.1.2.6 - Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words

Arkansas Academic Standards: 3.W.1.S

Write an opinion to convince the reader to take an action or adopt a position with logical reasons supported by evidence from various sources.

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