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Persuasive Writing Planning

Persuasive Writing Planning

Student planning persuasive writing

📝 Part 1: Understanding Persuasive Writing

1. What is persuasive writing? Circle the best answer:

Writing that tells a story

Writing that tries to convince someone of your opinion

Writing that describes something

Writing that explains how to do something

2. Check all the examples of persuasive writing:

Advertisements

Speeches

Recipe instructions

Letters to the editor

Fairy tales

Movie reviews

🎯 Part 2: My Persuasive Topic

3. Choose your persuasive writing topic. Write it clearly below:
4. Who is your audience? (Who are you trying to persuade?)
5. What is your opinion/position on this topic? Complete this sentence:

I believe that ________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

because ___________________________________________________

💡 Part 3: Planning Your Arguments

6. List three strong reasons that support your opinion:

Reason 1:

Reason 2:

Reason 3:

📊 Part 4: Supporting Evidence

7. For each reason above, provide evidence or examples to support it:

Evidence for Reason 1:

Evidence for Reason 2:

Evidence for Reason 3:

🗂️ Part 5: Graphic Organiser

8. Use this graphic organiser to plan your persuasive writing:

MY OPINION:

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________


REASON 1: ____________________________

Evidence: _______________________________


REASON 2: ____________________________

Evidence: _______________________________


REASON 3: ____________________________

Evidence: _______________________________


CONCLUSION:

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

🎭 Part 6: Persuasive Language Features

9. Match the persuasive language features with their examples:
1. Rhetorical question
2. Emotive language
3. Statistics
4. Expert opinion
A. "According to Dr. Smith..."
B. "Don't you think we deserve better?"
C. "85% of students agree"
D. "devastating consequences"
10. Write three persuasive words or phrases you could use in your writing:

1. ________________________________

2. ________________________________

3. ________________________________

🤔 Part 7: Reflection

11. How will planning help you write a better persuasive text?
12. What do you think will be the most challenging part of writing your persuasive text?
13. Rate how confident you feel about writing your persuasive text now:

Very confident

Quite confident

Somewhat confident

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