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Persuasive Writing Basics
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Persuasive Writing Basics
Read each question carefully. Choose the best answer or answers where options are given. For the writing questions, use persuasive features such as opinions, reasons and calls to action.
Recognising Persuasive Writing
1.What is a writer mainly trying to do when writing persuasively?
- Convince the reader to agree or take action
- Tell a made-up story with no message
- Give instructions for building an object
- Record events in the order they happened
2.Which sentence expresses an opinion?
- The library opens at half past eight.
- Our class borrowed 42 books in May.
- I reckon every school should have a garden.
- A sunflower can grow from a seed.
3.Which set contains three useful persuasive techniques?
- Reasons, emotive words and a call to action
- Headings, page numbers and a contents list
- Dates, measurements and alphabetical order
- Rhyming words, character names and dialogue
4.Which sentence clearly asks the reader to do something?
- The oval has two soccer goals.
- Please put your food scraps in the compost bin.
- Our compost bin is beside the garden shed.
- Food scraps can break down over time.
Using Persuasive Features
5.Choose all the sentences that could help persuade readers to protect a local creek.
- A clean creek gives birds and frogs a safe place to live.
- I believe everyone can help keep our creek healthy.
- Take your rubbish home after visiting the creek.
- The creek is 3 kilometres long.
6.Write two persuasive features that could appear in a letter asking the local council to add shade sails to a playground.
7.Write one short sentence encouraging students to bring a reusable drink bottle to school. Include an opinion and a call to action.
8.Match each sentence with its persuasive feature: call to action, opinion, reason, fact, emotive language or rhetorical question.
- Please switch off classroom lights when you leave.
- I believe our school needs a safer bike rack.
- A covered rack would keep bikes dry in the rain.
- The school has 18 bicycle spaces.
- Imagine arriving to find your bike soaked and muddy!
- Wouldn't it be better if every bike had a safe place?
- Opinion
- Fact
- Rhetorical question
- Call to action
- Emotive language
- Reason
9.Name two features that can make persuasive writing more convincing, and briefly explain how one of them helps the reader.
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