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Persuasive Text Planning

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Persuasive Text Planning

Read each question carefully. Then plan a persuasive text by choosing an opinion, audience and supporting reasons.

Persuasive Text Features

1.What is a persuasive text mainly written to do?
  • Tell a made-up adventure
  • Help the reader agree with an opinion or take action
  • Explain how to build a tent
  • Describe a person or place
2.Choose all the words that could make a reader feel strongly: wonderful, because, unfair, the, dangerous.
  • wonderful
  • because
  • unfair
  • the
  • dangerous
3.Match each persuasive feature to what it does.
  • Opinion
  • Reason
  • Emotive word
  • Audience
  • A word chosen to make the reader feel something
  • A statement that tells what the writer thinks
  • An explanation that supports the opinion
  • The people the writer hopes to persuade
4.Harper thinks the camping group should have a longer break for games. Write one opinion sentence that gives a reason.
5.Hudson wants the camp leader to add more storybooks to the tent library. Name one audience Hudson could try to persuade.

Plan Your Argument

6.Omar wants the camping group to have a later bedtime. Which reason best supports his opinion?
  • A later bedtime would give everyone more time to enjoy the campfire stories.
  • The tent is green.
  • Some people packed socks.
  • The camp is beside a hill.
7.Write an opinion about one change that would make a camping trip better. Include the change and one reason.
8.Choose an audience for your opinion about adding a campfire story time: the trip organiser, a bird or a sleeping bag.
  • The trip organiser
  • A bird
  • A sleeping bag
9.Write three different reasons to support this opinion: “Our camping group should have a short nature walk.”
10.Pick two emotive words that could strengthen a request for a safe place to store food: brilliant, dangerous, essential, sleepy.
11.Write one persuasive sentence asking the camping group to keep the campsite clean. Include a reason and an emotive word.
12.How could knowing your audience help you choose words for a persuasive text?

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  • Persuasive Text Planning, page 1 of 3: Persuasive Text Features

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  • Persuasive Text Planning, page 2 of 3: Plan Your Argument

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  • Persuasive Text Planning, page 3 of 3: 9. Write three different reasons to support this opinion: “Our camping group should

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