Build Your Best Argument

Build Your Best Argument

This worksheet guides students to plan a simple persuasive paragraph about the Hairy Man using the Hamburger model. Students choose their opinion, write an introduction, add reasons and evidence and finish with a conclusion. The activity includes sentence starters and visual supports to help young writers organise their ideas clearly and confidently.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts and to begin using our growing knowledge base to evaluate texts.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts and to use and expand on our knowledge to analyse and evaluate texts.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and evaluate texts.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts and to begin using our growing knowledge base to evaluate texts.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information, comparing content from a variety of print and digital sources.

Curriculum alignment

AC9E4LY05 9 Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, to expand topic knowledge and ideas, and evaluate texts AC9E5LY05 9 Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas AC9E6LY05 9 Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources AC9E3LY05 9 Use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features ACELY1692 8.4 Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts ACELY1713 8.4 Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts ACELY1703 8.4 Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources ACELY1680 8.4 Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
EN2-4A old Uses an increasing range of skills, strategies and knowledge to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on increasingly challenging topics in different media and technologies EN3-3A old Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies EN3-UARL-02 new Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts EN2-OLC-01 new Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting EN2-VOCAB-01 new Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words EN2-RECOM-01 new Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension EN2-UARL-01 new Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts EN3-UARL-01 new Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts EN3-RECOM-01 new Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension EN3-OLC-01 new Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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