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.
A visual display for your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their persuasive writing.
A visual display for your classroom to help students 'bump up' their persuasive writing.
A visual display for your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their persuasive writing.
A visual display for your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their persuasive writing.
A sorting activity for low and high modality words.
A worksheet for students to practice using persuasive devices in their writing.
A worksheet for students to practice using persuasive devices in their writing.
A worksheet to help teach students the author’s craft of using personal pronouns in persuasive text.
A worksheet to help teach students the author's craft of using modality words to persuade the reader.
A set of 3 worksheets to use when teaching your students about persuasive devices.
A worksheet to reinforce student knowledge of persuasive devices.
A worksheet to consolidate students' understanding of rhetorical questions.
A worksheet to help teach students the author's craft of emotive language.
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 3 magazine.
An engaging, creative task where students design their own t-shirt promoting the conservation of the Amazon rainforest.
Use the OREO persuasive writing frames to support your student's opinion writing skills.
A hands-on sorting activity to use when introducing persuasive devices.
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when introducing your students to persuasive devices.
A fun Thanksgiving writing activity to use with your students.
A set of 11 opinion techniques posters with examples of different methods.
A set of 3 worksheets to help your students identify the language features of opinion texts.
A set of 8 worksheets to help introduce persuasive language devices.
A 28 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about persuasive devices.
A set of 56 vocabulary words based on the degrees of modality in opinion writing.
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use persuasive devices to build a convincing opinion about an issue.
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how persuasive devices can be used to strengthen a point of view.
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore persuasive devices.