teaching resource

Persuasive Writing Assessment Pack Year 2

  • Updated

    Updated:  03 Mar 2026

Use this task to guide students through the full persuasive writing process for a persuasive assessment piece (including criteria sheet).

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  1 Page

  • Curriculum
  • Year

    Year:  2

Curriculum

  • AC9E2LY06

    Create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic- specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words

teaching resource

Persuasive Writing Assessment Pack Year 2

  • Updated

    Updated:  03 Mar 2026

Use this task to guide students through the full persuasive writing process for a persuasive assessment piece (including criteria sheet).

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  1 Page

  • Curriculum
  • Year

    Year:  2

Use this task to guide students through the full persuasive writing process for a persuasive assessment piece (including criteria sheet).

Year 2 Writing Assessment Pack – Real World Focus Writing

Support your Year 2 students as they learn to identify the purpose and audience of texts and explore how texts are organised to suit different purposes. 

In this task, students take on a familiar and engaging scenario: choosing the best class pet. They’ll read a model persuasive text, explore its structure, and then create their own piece of writing using clear planning steps. Along the way, they learn to recognise how writers use opinions, reasons, linking words, and text organisation to persuade a reader.

This comprehensive printable pack includes everything you need to guide Year 2 students through the full persuasive writing process:

  • A model persuasive text
  • Guided comprehension questions
  • Vocabulary prompts
  • Planning pages (pet choice, reasons, organiser)
  • Drafting scaffold
  • Writing pages
  • Student editing checklist
  • A detailed Year 2‑level persuasive writing rubric

Each section supports early writers by breaking the task into small, manageable steps while reinforcing curriculum expectations.

Persuasive Writing Structure and Vocabulary

When students learn how to write persuasively, they discover how authors use ideas and language to convince a reader. This pack helps Year 2 students understand the key parts of a persuasive text and the important vocabulary that strengthens their opinions.

Download this Persuasive Writing Assessment Pack Today

Use the drop-down menu to choose between the easy to print PDF or the editable Google Slide version of this persuasive writing pack.


This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher and Teach Starter Collaborator.


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