Balanced Argument: example text, planning sheets, self-assessment sheets

Example text titled: Should we lengthen the school day? This goes with some resources from teachit primary which cover the same topic for balanced argument. My example text is in Word, so you may edit it, but I have tried to ensure there is plenty for your Year 6 class to get to grips with including: phrases to introduce arguments; adverbs to emphasise; use of facts to back up points; paragraphing structure so that each paragraph has a topic which is argued from both sides; opinion offered in the concluding paragraph; dashes for parenthesis; use of colons and semi-colons; use of commas for clauses; use of modal verbs to express conditionals.
I have included two planning sheets, one which follows the pattern of the example text, and one which organises the arguments more simply, with one paragraph for, and one against. I have also included the assessment sheets. One was designed to be linked to Target Tracker and the Year 6 ARE statements.