Explicitly Teach Persuasive Writing Skills

If you’re planning on starting your persuasive writing unit soon, you’ve hit the jackpot! The Teach Starter team has compiled everything you need for teaching persuasive writing skills into one comprehensive slide deck!

This teaching presentation comprises 20 slides designed to teach your students the fundamentals of persuasive writing. Within the slides, you’ll find detailed explanations of the purpose, structural components and language characteristics of persuasive texts. The presentation also includes authentic, age-appropriate examples, providing opportunities for analysis and discussion with your class.

To ensure student comprehension, the slideshow incorporates several review activities that can be completed as a whole class, in small groups or independently. Supplementary resources from Teach Starter are linked within the presentation to further enrich your students’ understanding of the persuasive genre.

Using this resource, your students will learn the skills they need to write an effective persuasive text.

Features of This Persuasive Writing Skills Presentation

This persuasive writing skills presentation is jam-packed with information and activities to help your students learn all there is to know about persuasive writing. Some of the slides include:

• What are persuasive texts?
• Structure of persuasive texts
• Language of persuasive texts
• Chocolate Is Not Unhealthy – Example text
• School Lunchtimes Should Be Longer – Example text
• Show what you know activities

Download to Teach Persuasive Writing Skills to Your Students

This slideshow downloads as either a Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation. Use the dropdown menu on the Download button to access your preferred version. (Note: You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides presentation before accessing it.)

Project the resource onto your screen and work through the slides as a class over a sequence of lessons.

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