Persuasive Text - Planning Your Argument
This 2-page worksheet provides an explanation of what is required to create a strong argument in persuasive text writing. The second page provides an area for students to add their own information in planning their argument.
Learning goals
- We are learning to use interaction skills to listen to and contribute to conversations, use positive statements to engage and appropriate language to disagree in group and class settings.
- We are learning to identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts.
- We are learning to understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts.
- We are learning to plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using text structures and language features appropriate to the audience and purpose.
- We are learning to re-read and edit texts for appropriate meaning, structure, grammatical choices and punctuation.
- We are learning to recognise how texts can be created for similar purposes but different audiences, e.g. different language choices for children and adults.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E3LY02
9
Use interaction skills to contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas
AC9E3LY03
9
Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts through their use of language features and/or images
AC9E3LA04
9
Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of the stages of written texts, grouping related information together
AC9E3LY06
9
Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic-specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetically regular words
AC9E3LY07
9
Plan, create, rehearse and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations to inform, express opinions or tell stories, using a clear structure, details to elaborate ideas, topic-specific and precise vocabulary, visual features, and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume
AC9E3LY01
9
Recognise how texts can be created for similar purposes but different audiences
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.