Persuasive Writing - Assessment
A structured assessment task evaluating studentsโ understanding of persuasive writing. Students identify purpose and techniques, generate ideas and write a persuasive paragraph using ORE, supported by editing and proofreading processes to demonstrate clarity, reasoning and control of language.
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.
- We are learning to understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts.
- We are learning to identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view.
- 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 use active listening skills, appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume to communicate and interact clearly with others.
- We are learning to identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive 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 use software, e.g. MS Word or PowerPoint to plan, sequence, compose and edit multimodal texts featuring visual, print and audio elements.
- We are learning to plan and deliver oral or multimodal short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence.
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
Provide sentence starters, reduce writing expectations, scaffold brainstorming, allow oral responses, support use of โbecauseโ for explanations.
Extensions
Students expand paragraph into full persuasive text, include multiple reasons, apply additional persuasive techniques, complete peer assessment using rubric.