A fun writing lesson for grade 3-6 students that prepares them to write a persuasive text, by identifying facts, developing opinions and distinguishing between them about a topic/s of their choice.

6 Lessons

Grade: 3-6

Persuasive Writing

This mini-unit will explicitly step students through the skill of writing an engaging, convincing, and detailed persuasive text. Students will explore the features of persuasive writing including how to generate ideas, the use of facts, opinions, structure, and word choice.

A fun writing lesson for grade 3-6 students that prepares them to write a persuasive text, by identifying facts, developing opinions and distinguishing between them about a topic/s of their choice.

6 Lessons

Grade: 3-6

Persuasive Writing

This mini-unit will explicitly step students through the skill of writing an engaging, convincing, and detailed persuasive text. Students will explore the features of persuasive writing including how to generate ideas, the use of facts, opinions, structure, and word choice.

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Essential Question/s

How can I as a writer construct an engaging and convincing persuasive text?

General Capabilities

Literacy
Personal and Social Capability
Critical and Creative thinking
ICT

Lessons

6 Lessons

Lesson 1

A fun writing lesson for grade 3-6 students that prepares them to write a persuasive text, by identifying facts, developing opinions and distinguishing between them about a topic/s of their choice.

Lesson
Writing

Persuasive Writing - Facts and Opinions

Grades: 3-6

Identifying and developing facts and opinions.

Lesson 2

A fun writing lesson for grade 3-6 students that prepares them to write a persuasive text, by generating a range of ideas and different topics. Students will consider the audience of their chosen topic and brainstorm supporting evidence for their arguments, before selecting the strongest one to focus on.

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Writing

Persuasive Writing - Generating Ideas

Grades: 4-3

Generating ideas for persuasive texts.

Lesson 3

An engaging and productive writing lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to understand the correct structure for a persuasive text. Students will begin to map out their arguments into body paragraphs and construct their topic sentences, using the ideas generated in the previous lesson. This sets students up for success and develops their independence writing persuasive text types.

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Writing

Persuasive Writing - Structure And Topic Sentences

Grades: 3-6

Understanding the structure of a persuasive text.

Lesson 4

A clear and concise writing lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to construct an introduction paragraph for a persuasive text. This lesson explicitly teaches students the structure of an introduction paragraph, and provides them with time to independently write their own after teacher modeling.

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Writing

Persuasive Writing - Constructing an Introduction Paragraph

Grades: 3-6

Constructing an engaging introduction paragraph, following the correct structure.

Lesson 5

A fun writing lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to understand the role of high modality words in a persuasive text. Students will practise using them, and compare low, medium and high modality words before including them in their own writing.

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Writing

Persuasive Writing - High Modality Words

Grades: 3-6

Using high modality words and phrases in a persuasive text to convince my reader.

Lesson 6

An engaging and productive writing lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to enhance their persuasive writing with various language devices. These persuasive language techniques are referred to in an easy-to-remember acronym, known as AFOREST. Students brainstorm various examples before adding their own into their writing.

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Writing

Persuasive Writing - Persuasive Language with A FOREST

Grades: 3-6

Understand and include various persuasive language devices (AFOREST) in my writing.

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