Choosing Better Words
This worksheet helps students improve their persuasive writing by replacing weak language choices with stronger, more effective words and phrases. Ideal for teaching vocabulary and writing techniques, it enhances students' ability to create convincing arguments.
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.
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More Persuasive Writing Prompts
This set of 15 persuasive writing prompts are a great resource to display on the IWB for students to access as practise writing exercises be...
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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 Sentence Starters - Middle Primary
Persuasive Sentence Starters is made up of 6 sentence beginnings designed primarily to make persuasive writing simple for Year 3 students. S...
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Persuasive Writing Needs Strong Words - Lower Primary
Persuasive Writing Does Need Strong Words so we decided to create a simple classroom poster for lower primary students that says just that!...
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Better Word Choices - Feelings
These charts have a myriad of uses in the classroom. They can be used to help students express their own emotions. The visual aspect of thes...
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Modal Verbs Poster
This resource depicts the level of modality and helps students link modality to the strength of each word choice.
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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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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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Persuasive Texts - #1 How to Persuade People
This worksheet is #1 in our series of 23 worksheets which focus on persuasive texts.
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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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Start with Strong Arguments
This worksheet helps students identify their strongest arguments for and against school uniforms. They will craft well-constructed sentences...
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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 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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Persuasive Texts - Presentation
This Presentation was written to walk students through the skills they’ll need for persuasive texts for year 3. This is part of a bigger uni...
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Persuasive Texts - Student Reference Card
Equip students with the "Persuasive Texts Student Reference Card," a valuable tool that outlines the essential elements of persuasive writin...
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Sequencing Persuasive Texts - Level 1
Enhance students' ability to craft persuasive texts with this resource. This resource provides structured activities that guide students thr...
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English Unit: Persuasive Texts
This unit was designed to help students hone their persuasive texts skills for Year 3.
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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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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 TEEL 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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Persuasive Text - ‘All Children Should Learn to Swim’
A great example of a persuasive text that can be used in multiple ways, within your classroom:Identify and annotate structural and language...
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Persuade Me
This handy worksheet will support your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive devices by matching each one listed, to the...
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Exploring Persuasion
This worksheet has been created to support the text, ‘All Children Should Learn to Swim’. The worksheet contains literal and inferential que...
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Language of Persuasion
This cut and paste worksheet will support your students to consolidate their understanding of persuasive language features by categorising t...
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Persuasive Text Template
This helpful scaffold encourages and supports your students to compose a correctly structured persuasive text. It provides students with sec...