Start with Strong Arguments
This worksheet helps students identify their strongest arguments for and against school uniforms. They will craft well-constructed sentences using learned rhetorical devices, fostering critical thinking and persuasive writing skills.
Learning goals
- We are learning to plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts with correct text structure, tense, language features, vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and images.
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
Plan writing using bullet points only
Extensions
Construct a persuasive argument using planning, incorporating a rhetoric image to support the writing
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Persuasion
Persuasion... this poster was created as a reminder when structuring a persuasive writing text. Students are reminded that successful persua...
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Persuasive Words - Middle Primary Reference Card
This reference card provides a very simple resource for students to access when structuring their persuasive writing texts. It includes a se...
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Persuasive Words - Upper Primary Reference Card
This reference card is designed to give students easy access to a list of highly persuasive words when structuring their persuasive writing...
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Persuasive Writing Needs Strong Words
Persuasive Writing Does Need Strong Words so we decided to create a simple classroom poster that says just that! Powerful words surround the...
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Persuasive Outline
Students will use the Persuasive Outline to plan their own persuasive text.
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Persuasive Outline - Landscape
This landscape presentation of the Persuasive Outline provides an alternative planning style for students to use as they plan their own pers...
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Modality Meter
This resource depicts the level of modality and helps students link modality to the strength of each word choice.
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Persuade Me - Persuasive Sentence Starters Display
This set of sentence starters can be displayed in the classroom as a prompt for students to access when creating a persuasive text.
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Persuasive Techniques Posters
Learn how to use each of the persuasive techniques effectively with this set of 10 classroom posters. Match these back with our persuasive w...
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Annotated Text Types
Introducing a comprehensive resource for educators, encompassing annotated texts across various genres such as Information Reports, Procedur...
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Genre Paragraph Writing - Posters
This set of Genre Paragraph Writing - Posters was created to demonstrate how to write a paragraph in a variety of different text types. Thes...
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There is More to Persuasion
This worksheet allows students to brainstorm where they encounter persuasion in their daily lives, from streaming services to social media....
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Persuasive Texts - #3 Persuading Your Teacher
This worksheet is #3 in our series of 23 worksheets which focus on persuasive texts.
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Persuasive Texts - #10 Persuasive Statistics
This worksheet is #10 in our series of 23 worksheets which focus on persuasive texts.
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Rhetorically Speaking - Worksheet
Use this handy worksheet when learning about rhetorical questions within persuasive texts.
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Rule of Three Persuasive Texts
A great worksheet when exploring 'the rule of three' within persuasive texts.
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Persuasive Texts - #17 Structuring Your Writing
This worksheet is #17 in our series of 23 worksheets which focus on persuasive texts.
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Take Action
This worksheet helps students use rhetorical devices to transform statements into persuasive language, encouraging action. Includes suggeste...
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Plan to Persuade
Collaborative worksheet where students plan a persuasive letter to their principal against cancelling recess and school sports. Students gen...
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Persuasive Texts - #20 What Makes It Powerful
This worksheet is #20 in our series of 23 worksheets which focus on persuasive texts.
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Persuasive Writing Checklist
This is a simple checklist designed for younger students beginning their mastery of Persuasive Writing. It provides a very basic guide to as...
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Persuasive Writing - Gingerbread Man Activities
The Gingerbread Man writing prompt for class screen. Use along with the TeachThis ‘The Gingerbread Man’ read aloud. Display the writing p...
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Sequencing Persuasive Texts Level 3
Students cut and rearrange examples of persuasive texts to help cement their understanding of the structure of persuasive texts.
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TEEL Paragraph Writing
This TEEL poster is a great classroom display, assisting in constructing paragraphs with appropriate paragraph structure. The paragraph stru...
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TEEL Paragraphs
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing persuasive texts. It is part of a p...
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Puzzling Persuasive Paragraphs
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing persuasive texts. It is part of a pr...
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Peeling Paragraphs
This worksheet is a great scaffold to support students to accurately structure a paragraph when writing persuasive texts. It is part of a p...
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Polluting PEEL Paragraphs
This is a great persuasive paragraph sequencing activity on the topic ‘Single Use Plastic’. Students read the jumbled persuasive paragraph a...
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TEEL Paragraphs
This worksheet acts a scaffold to support students to accurately structure and write a persuasive paragraph. The TEEL Paragraph method suppo...
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Modal Verbs - Wall Display
Use this fantastic resource in your classroom when teaching about modality. This activity can be used as a class display for students to ref...
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Persuasive Picture Prompts - Set One
A fantastic set of 25 Persuasive Picture Writing Prompts which are great for your daily writing, warm-up or ltieracy rotations. In Set One,...
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Persuasive Texts - Presentation
This detailed presentation supports your students when planning and composing persuasive texts. It runs though the structure, text features,...
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Language of Persuasion Worksheet
This cut and paste worksheet will support your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive language features by categorising t...
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The Art of Persuasion Worksheet
This handy worksheet will support your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive language devices by matching each one liste...
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Persuasion Exploration
A great example of a persuasive text that can be used in multiple ways within your classroom. This text could be annotated through the explo...
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Persuasive Texts Scaffold Template
This helpful scaffold encourages and supports your students to compose a correctly structured persuasive text. It provides students with sec...
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English Unit: Persuasive Texts
This unit plan is a great way to support students plan, draft and compose persuasive texts. The unit contains a detailed presentation, an ab...