Teaching Resource

Persuasive Texts Writing Task - Movies Are More Enjoyable Than Books

PDF, Word | 3 pages|Grades: 3 - 6

A writing activity to help students construct a detailed and reasoned persuasive text.

Use this teaching resource when teaching persuasive writing to your students.

Discuss the writing prompt as a class.

Students choose whether they are ‘for’ or ‘against’ the statement, then select three reasons from the prompt which support their opinion.

Students then plan and write a detailed persuasive text using the worksheets provided in the resource.

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NSW Curriculum alignment

EN2-2A
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
In English Stage 2 A. Communicate through speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing and representing
EN3-2A
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
In English Stage 3 A. Communicate through speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing and representing

Victorian Curriculum alignment

VCELY266
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose
In English Level 3 Writing Literacy
VCELY299
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features
In English Level 4 Writing Literacy
VCELY329
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience
In English Level 5 Writing Literacy
VCELY358
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience
In English Level 6 Writing Literacy

Australian Curriculum alignment

ACELY1682
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purposeElaborationsusing pri...
In English Year 3 Literacy Creating texts
ACELY1694
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language featuresElaborationsusing re...
In English Year 4 Literacy Creating texts
ACELY1704
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audienceElaborationsusing research from print and digital resources t...
In English Year 5 Literacy Creating texts
ACELY1714
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audienceElaborationscreating informative texts for two ...
In English Year 6 Literacy Creating texts

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Great reasons for a discussion plan for my class! It would be great if there were the same one, except that it was Books are More Better than Movies.

Elsa Anna · Oct 29th, 2020

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Tom (Teach Starter) · Oct 30th, 2020

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