So far, writing your reasons. To persuade means to convince. When we persuade someone, we want to convince them of something we want. I want to convince my teacher that we should have more reasons. Reasons tell your audience why they should listen to you. I've already thought of a few reasons, but I want to make them even better. Because if my reasons aren't good enough, my teacher will never agree to give us more reasons. One great way to develop even better reason is to think about the counterargument. A counterargument are reasons that are against what you want. Think, why would my audience say no? Why would my teacher say if I ask for more reasons? She might say no, you don't have enough time for more reasons. Or maybe she might say you all need to behave better to have more reasons. Now I can come up with a response to this counterargument. If my teacher thinks we don't have enough time for more reasons, I could say I know we don't have a lot of time. But even five more minutes would be better. If she thinks that we need to behave better, I could say if we have more recess, we promise to have better behavior. Next, I can make my reasons better by supporting my reasons with facts. Facts are statements you can prove. I'm going to look on the internet for some facts about recess. Oh, I found this article that says kids learn better when they have more recess. So I'm going to put as one of my reasons that kids that have more recess do better in school. This will definitely help convince my teacher. Are you ready to start writing? Check out episode five to see how to start.