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Persuasive Planning Worksheet

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Persuasive Planning Worksheet

Use the sample topic of reducing food waste at school to practise planning. For the open-ended prompts, you may use this topic or choose one of your own. Give reasons, support them with evidence, and consider what you want your audience to do.

Choose a position

Start with an issue and decide what you want your readers to think or do.

1.What issue would you like to persuade people about? Name a specific topic.
2.Write a one-sentence claim about the sample issue: what should happen to reduce food waste at school?
3.Who would be the most direct audience for a proposal to add food-scraps bins at school?
  • The school community
  • Visitors to a national park
  • People choosing a new television
  • Readers of a travel guide

Build reasons and evidence

A persuasive argument needs relevant reasons and evidence that helps readers trust those reasons.

4.Give one strong reason why a school might try to reduce food waste.
5.Which piece of evidence would best support the claim that food waste is a problem at your school?
  • A week-long count of uneaten food collected at lunchtime
  • A student’s favourite colour
  • A list of popular sports
  • A description of the school uniform
6.Suggest a second reason that could support adding food-scraps bins. Explain what evidence you could gather for it.
7.A survey finds that 18 of 30 students would use a food-scraps bin. What does this result suggest?
8.Write a third reason for your position and name one relevant example, fact, or source that could support it.

Choose persuasive techniques

Identify techniques, then decide how to use them effectively rather than adding them at random.

9.Which sentence uses emotive language to encourage action?
  • Every day, perfectly good food is needlessly wasted.
  • The bin is beside the canteen door.
  • Food scraps can be collected after lunch.
  • The canteen opens at midday.
10.Which sentence is a rhetorical question about food waste?
  • How much food could we save if everyone planned their lunch?
  • How many bins are near the hall?
  • Who is on duty this afternoon?
  • When does the library close?
11.Write one sentence using either a rhetorical question or emotive language to support your chosen position.
12.Match each persuasive technique to the example that best demonstrates it.
  • Statistic
  • Expert opinion
  • Repetition
  • Personal anecdote
  • Sort it today, sort it tomorrow, sort it every day.
  • A survey found that 18 of 30 students would use a scraps bin.
  • A local waste educator recommends separating food scraps.
  • I used to throw away my apple; now I save it for later.
13.Plan a conclusion for your persuasive piece. Restate your claim and tell your audience one action to take.

3 printable pages

  • Persuasive Planning Worksheet, page 1 of 3: Choose a position, Build reasons and evidence

    Page 1

  • Persuasive Planning Worksheet, page 2 of 3: Choose persuasive techniques

    Page 2

  • Persuasive Planning Worksheet, page 3 of 3: 10. Which sentence is a rhetorical question about food waste?

    Page 3

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