Teaching Resource
Persuasive Texts Writing Task - Movies Are More Enjoyable Than Books
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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
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