Peek into Persuasive
This worksheet has been designed to be used to study a persuasive mentor text that has been read in your classroom. Students will explore the persuasive features of the text by identifying the audience and what the author wants, as well as their convincing reasons.
Complete as a whole class or individually.
Learning goals
- We are learning to recognise that texts have different features and purposes, e.g. recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain.
- We are learning to create, re-read and edit short written and multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount an event using capital letters, punctuation and correct spelling.
- We are learning to explore language to provide reasons for likes, dislikes and preferences.
- We are learning to understand that speech, gestures, writing, symbols and icons e.g. emojis are used to communicate needs, likes and dislikes.
- We are learning to identify that texts serve different purposes and that this affects how they are organised.
- We are learning to create texts for a purpose that show our understanding of the connection between writing, speech and images.
- We are learning to edit our texts and make changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation.
- We are learning to use software, e.g. MS Word to construct texts and add images.
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
Complete in a small, teacher-led group together.
Extensions
Give students another persuasive text to examine using this worksheet.