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Persuasive Devices
Persuasive devices are vital to understand and use when writing persuasively. Some examples of persuasive devices are alliteration, rhetorical questions, exaggeration, statistics, emotive language, modality, repetition, facts, opinion, the rule of 3 and using personal pronouns. Use this collection of persuasive devices teaching resources when learning about each device and how to use it correctly. Resources available include lesson plans, vocabulary word walls, worksheets, posters and PowerPoint presentations.
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Persuasive Writing Bump It Up Wall – Grade 6
A visual display for your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their persuasive writing.
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Persuasive Writing Bump It Up Wall – Grade 5
A visual display for your classroom to help students 'bump up' their persuasive writing.
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Persuasive Writing Bump It Up Wall – Grade 4
A visual display for your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their persuasive writing.
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Persuasive Writing Bump It Up Wall – Grade 3
A visual display for your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their persuasive writing.
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Low and High Modality Sort – Worksheet
A sorting activity for low and high modality words.
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Using Persuasive Devices – A Turtle for a Pet
A worksheet for students to practice using persuasive devices in their writing.
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Using Persuasive Devices – Living in a Treehouse
A worksheet for students to practice using persuasive devices in their writing.
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Personal Pronouns Worksheet
A worksheet to help teach students the author’s craft of using personal pronouns in persuasive text.
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Modality Words Worksheet
A worksheet to help teach students the author's craft of using modality words to persuade the reader.
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Persuasive Device Worksheets
A set of 3 worksheets to use when teaching your students about persuasive devices.
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Finding Persuasive Devices Worksheet
A worksheet to reinforce student knowledge of persuasive devices.
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Rhetorical Questions Worksheet
A worksheet to consolidate students' understanding of rhetorical questions.
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Emotive Language Worksheet
A worksheet to help teach students the author's craft of emotive language.
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Grade 3 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 1) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 3 magazine.
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Conservation T-Shirt Challenge
An engaging, creative task where students design their own t-shirt promoting the conservation of the Amazon rainforest.
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Opinion Text Planning Template (Using OREO)
Use the OREO persuasive writing frames to support your student's opinion writing skills.
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Persuasive Devices Sorting Activity
A hands-on sorting activity to use when introducing persuasive devices.
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Introduction to Persuasive Devices PowerPoint
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when introducing your students to persuasive devices.
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Save Terrance the Turkey - Thanksgiving Activity
A fun Thanksgiving writing activity to use with your students.
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Opinion Techniques Posters
A set of 11 opinion techniques posters with examples of different methods.
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Identifying The Language of Opinion Worksheets
A set of 3 worksheets to help your students identify the language features of opinion texts.
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Persuasive Language Devices Worksheets
A set of 8 worksheets to help introduce persuasive language devices.
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Persuasive Devices PowerPoint
A 28 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about persuasive devices.
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Modality Word Wall with Information
A set of 56 vocabulary words based on the degrees of modality in opinion writing.
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Building an Opinion Using Persuasive Devices
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use persuasive devices to build a convincing opinion about an issue.
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Introducing Persuasive Devices
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how persuasive devices can be used to strengthen a point of view.
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Using Persuasive Devices
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore persuasive devices.