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Planning Persuasive Arguments Worksheet

Choose a topic, decide what you think, and plan reasons and evidence to support your position. Sample answers are provided as examples; your own well-supported ideas may be different.

Choose a position

You may choose one of the topics below or write a different school-related topic.

1.Which topic will you plan an argument about?

Students should have more time for reading at school.
Every class should have a weekly outdoor lesson.
Schools should provide more vegetarian lunch choices.
My own school-related topic: ____________________

2.Write a one-sentence opinion about whether students should have more time for reading at school. Make your position clear.

Build your reasons with evidence

For each reason, add evidence or a specific example. Then explain how that evidence supports your opinion.

3.Give one reason to support extra reading time at school, add a relevant example or evidence, and explain how it could persuade a reader.

4.Give a second, different reason to support extra reading time at school, with evidence or an example and an explanation of how it supports your case.

5.Give a third reason to support extra reading time at school, with evidence or an example and an explanation of how it might persuade someone.

6.Which techniques could strengthen an argument asking for more reading time? Select all that apply.

Include a reliable fact or statistic about reading.
Use a relevant comment from a reading expert.
Ask a question that encourages the audience to think.
Repeat a key phrase to make the main idea memorable.
Add an unrelated joke instead of giving a reason.

7.Match each persuasive technique to the description that best explains it.

Fact or statistic
Expert opinion
Rhetorical question
Repetition

A relevant view from someone with knowledge of the subject.
Repeating an important word or phrase to make it stand out.
A question asked to prompt thought rather than get a spoken reply.
A checkable detail or number used to support a claim.

Consider another point of view

A persuasive writer can recognise a different view and respond to it respectfully.

8.What might someone who disagrees with extra reading time at school say?

9.Write a respectful response to the concern that extra reading time would take time away from other subjects.

10.Which plan gives the strongest support for the opinion that students should have more reading time?

It gives three different reasons, relevant examples for each, and a response to another viewpoint.
It repeats the opinion several times but provides no reasons.
It gives one personal preference and no examples.
It lists unrelated facts without explaining how they support the opinion.