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Hire Me, Santa! Opinion Writing Holiday Project- UPDATED with 5 NEW Pages!

Bring holiday magic and excitement to your students’ persuasive writing skills with this Christmas activity that includes a full hallway display! Perfect for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade classrooms with differentiated graphic organizers to adjust the length and complexity of the writing.

With a graphic organizer, anchor chart, and exciting writing assignment, your students will have everything they need to convince Santa to hire them as his very own elf! Say goodbye to boring lesson plans and hello to festive fun in the classroom. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to bring holiday cheer into your teaching and watch your students’ creativity soar. Get your hands on this must-have Christmas activity today!

This Activity Includes:

1. Persuasive Writing Anchor Chart – OREO Persuasive Paragraph Writing (Christmas Cookie Theme)

2. Oreo Graphic Organizer/Interactive Notebook Flipable / Foldable pieces. This single page can be used in multiple ways- for instruction with an interactive notebook, or as a graphic organizer to match the anchor chart. Great for all year!

3. Graphic Organizer to help students organize a 5 -7 sentence persuasive paragraph. This organizer can be the first building block in writing more complicated, detailed, persuasive pieces of writing. Great for all year!

4. Graphic Organizer for a 5-paragraph persuasive writing piece for more advanced writers. This is great for classroom differentiation. Both organizers look similar, but one offers more challenge to proficient writers.

5. Elf Job Application- Begin writing persuasive sentences with strong, descriptive language.

6. Personal Interest Inventory to help students recognize their talents and areas of strength to add information and to their persuasive writing.

7. Elf Letter of Interest (3 versions)– Use the graphic organizers above to write a letter to Santa that will convince him to hire you as an elf! Two versions for differentiation.

8. Persuasive writing sentence starters- Sentence starter ideas for all elements of OREO writing. This piece is good for year-round use.

9. Editing Checklist

10. Elf Writing Rubric

11. 4 different Help Wanted style posters for bulletin board display.

NEW Additions:

2 pages of detailed job descriptions with matching skills from the personality character assessment page

Updated “InNeed” job posting display

Updated letter templates with a “make and elf” image space

Differentiated letter-size templates.