Think, Then Write Workbook 7: an explicit writing program featuring persuasive writing foundations – a step-by-step, illustrated, fully-scripted, and scaffolded guide to help students learn the basics of opinion-piece and essay writing.

Our 120+ page no-prep plain English workbook (a volume of our Think, Then Write Explicit Writing Program) is designed to be useful for older students of all abilities. It is about three main things (1) opinions, (2) persuasion; and (3) persuasive writing. Given persuasive writing is complex, we break it down into fourteen interactive and scripted steps as set out below.