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• Literacy
• Primary Education
• Age 10-12

Persuasive writing

What makes a text persuasive?

What are you trying to persuade the reader to believe?

How do we persuade?

Healthy choices!

How can we make healthy choices?

What makes food healthy?

What healthy options do we have at school?

Today we are learning to, 

- Construct persuasive sentences.

- Identify high modatility words.

- Structure a debate.

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Outcome

EN3-RECOM-01

Sucsess criteria

I can create and identify persuasive sentences.

I understand the structure of a debate

WALT

What do we know
about healthy foods ?

What sentence sounds more convincing?
1. Eating nutritious food is good."
2. "Eating nutritious food can make you stronger and healthier.”

- Quick poll allows teacher to assess students prior knowledge

Sentence starters!

Drag and drop the correct word to finish these sentences.

Constructing persuasive sentence starters.

I

We can make a

In my

I

One

What if I 

Believe that..

By…

It is clear..

You to..

Is..

You that..

Urge

Reason

Told

Difference 

Opinion 

Strongly 

HIGH MODALITY WORDS

Undoubtedly

Necessary

Essential

Certaintly

Definitely

Should the canteen provide more healthy or unhelathy options?

HEALTHY

UNHEALTHY

Healthy 

Unhealthy

What is a debate?

1. An argument.
2. A big conversation etween lots of people.
3. A discussion between two disagreeing parties on a key theme .
4. A way to prove you are right.

• Het goede antwoord is B.

Reference list 

NSW Educations Standard Authority. (2021). English: K-10 Syllabus. https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/k-10/learning-areas/english-year-10/english-k-10/content/899

 

NSW Education Standards Authority. (2018). Personal Development, Health and Physical Education: K-10 syllabus

Debating skills - Introduction. (n.d.). Www.youtube.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TSkkxu8on0