A fun, real-world literacy lesson that teaches Grade 3/4 students about the purpose of persuasive language in a text. Students are using a printed or digital real estate property listing to locate and highlight the persuasive text.

6 Lessons

Grade: 3-6

Property Persuasion

This fun, real-world literacy unit explicitly takes students on a journey, step by step, through the skill of identifying and understanding the purpose of persuasive language in a text. This unit uses real estate property listings as the base text and creates the opportunity for students to design and sell their own properties using persuasive language. These lessons can also be completed as a stand alone lesson and are adaptable to any real estate listings in your local area.

A fun, real-world literacy lesson that teaches Grade 3/4 students about the purpose of persuasive language in a text. Students are using a printed or digital real estate property listing to locate and highlight the persuasive text.

6 Lessons

Grade: 3-6

Property Persuasion

This fun, real-world literacy unit explicitly takes students on a journey, step by step, through the skill of identifying and understanding the purpose of persuasive language in a text. This unit uses real estate property listings as the base text and creates the opportunity for students to design and sell their own properties using persuasive language. These lessons can also be completed as a stand alone lesson and are adaptable to any real estate listings in your local area.

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Essential Question/s

How is persuasive language used in a text to convince readers to think or behave in a certain way?

General Capabilities

Literacy
Critical and Creative thinking
Personal and Social Capability
ICT

Lessons

6 Lessons

Lesson 1

A fun, real-world literacy lesson that teaches Grade 3/4 students about the purpose of persuasive language in a text. Students are using a printed or digital real estate property listing to locate and highlight the persuasive text.

Lesson
Reading | Writing

Property Persuasion - Locating Language

Grades: 3-6

Locate the persuasive language used in a real estate property listing.

Lesson 2

A fun, real-world literacy lesson that teaches Grade 3/4 students about the purpose of persuasive language in a text. Students add key persuasive words/phrases from property listings onto post-it notes and build a word wall.

Lesson
Reading | Writing

Property Persuasion - Word Wall

Grades: 3-6

Build a word wall of persuasive language used in real estate property listings.

Lesson 3

A fun, real-world literacy lesson that teaches Grade 3/4 students about the purpose of persuasive language in a text. Students write a real estate listing to persuasively sell a Minecraft property.

Lesson
Writing

Property Persuasion - Sell A Space

Grades: 3-4

Write a persuasive real estate listing to sell a Minecraft property.

Lesson 4

A fun, real-world literacy lesson that teaches Grade 3/4 students about the purpose of persuasive language in a text. Students develop a floor plan for a new property and build their floor plan using Lego.

Lesson
Writing

Property Persuasion - Develop A Design

Grades: 3-6

Develop a floor plan design for a new property and build it using Lego.

Lesson 5

A fun, real-world literacy lesson that teaches Grade 3/4 students about the purpose of persuasive language in a text. Students write a persuasive real estate listing to match their Lego property.

Lesson
Writing

Property Persuasion - Write Your Property Listing

Grades: 3-4

Write a persuasive real estate listing to match the Lego property.

Lesson 6

A fun, real-world literacy lesson that teaches Grade 3/4 students about the purpose of persuasive language in a text. Students film a virtual home tour going through their Lego property. They present the tour while focusing on using persuasive and enthusiastic language to entice prospective customers.

Lesson
Writing

Property Persuasion - Virtual Home Tour

Grades: 3-4

Film a virtual home tour for prospective clients using persuasive language.

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