Classroom printables, activities & worksheets
Persuasive Prompts
Learning to write persuasively can be difficult for children. They first need to decide on their position and then the arguments that they are going to provide to support that position. Use these persuasive writing prompt resources to guide your students in the decision making process and how to form their arguments. Teaching resources provided include lesson plans, worksheets, PowerPoint presentations and sorting activities.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Replace and Upgrade – Project
A project where students get to decide on a new ride they can design to put into Five Wonders Theme Park.
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Persuasive Writing Worksheet - Would You Rather?
A worksheet for students to use to write an persuasive composition.
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Literature Study - Upper Primary - Task Cards
A set of 14 literature study task cards for upper primary students to use when analysing children's literature.
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Literature Study - Lower Primary - Task Cards
A set of 12 literature study task cards for lower primary students to use when analysing children's literature.
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Persuasive Text Writing Prompts - Complete Set
A set of 5 persuasive writing prompts, covering a variety of topics.
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Persuasive Texts Writing Task - Movies Are More Enjoyable Than Books
A writing activity to help students construct a detailed and reasoned persuasive text.
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Persuasive Texts Writing Task - All Families Should Own a Pet
A writing activity to help students construct a detailed and reasoned persuasive text.
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Persuasive Texts Writing Task - City Life is Better Than Country Life
A writing activity to help students construct a detailed and reasoned persuasive text.
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Persuasive Texts Writing Task - Zoos Are No Place for Animals
A writing activity to help students construct a detailed and reasoned persuasive text.
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Persuasive Texts Writing Task - Outdoor Play is Better Than Indoor Play
A writing activity to help students construct a detailed and reasoned persuasive text.
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5 Persuasive Writing Stimulus Sheets
Writing stimulus sheets for persuasive writing.
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Simple Language in Persuasive Writing Poster
A poster to introduce students to the use of simple language in persuasive writing.
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Persuasive Speech Writing Task
A persuasive speech writing task, based around real-world issues affecting children.
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Persuasive Topic Cards - Upper Primary
A set of persuasive topic cards for upper primary.
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Persuasive Topic Cards - Lower Grades
A set of persuasive topic cards for lower grades.
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Persuade Me: Persuasive Writing Assessment Activities
A set of 4 persuasive writing assessment activities.
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Topic Sentence Starter Cards
A pack of 32 narrative, persuasive and report writing sentence starter cards.
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Persuasive Sentence Worksheet
Some persuasive sentence starters to be completed with evidence.
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Persuasive Sentence Starters
Have your students begin their persuasive writing with a strong sentence starter.
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Eat Your Peas - Independent Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently construct a simple persuasive text about a familiar situation.
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What Pet Should I Get? - Shared Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will construct a simple persuasive text on a familiar situation in pairs.
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Hey, Little Ant - Modelled Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will construct a simple persuasive text on a familiar topic.
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Using a Stimulus - Independent Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a persuasive text, using appropriate text structure, language and features.
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Using a Persuasive Prompt - Shared Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use a writing prompt and scaffolding sheet to write a persuasive text in pairs.
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28 Tips (and 10 Books!) for Teaching Persuasive Writing
By teaching persuasive writing effectively, we prepare our students not only for future learning, but for life in a world where opinions are everywhere.
