Persuasive Writing Activities: Writing to Persuade Phase 2-3 (Year 4-8)

Description

Spark excitement and develop persuasive writing skills in your classroom with these six sets of writing prompts and scaffolded writing activities. The activities cover argument writing (write to persuade). They include engaging writing prompts, mentor texts, scaffolded material, and planning graphic organisers. This writing resource also includes in-depth teacher notes.

This resource aligns with the New Zealand English Curriculum for Phase Two and Three (Year 4-8).

Briitish spelling is used throughout this resource.

This pack includes writing activities for the genre of:

persuasive writing – write to persuade

Each writing activity set includes:

A creative and engaging writing prompt (a memory, physical experience, video or idea generation activity)
Ideas for oral language discussion
A writing model (mentor text) to unpack language features and text structures
A writing planner specific to the text type complete with additional learning scaffolds
Writing frames
In-depth teaching notes.