Discursive Writing

Are your students struggling with discursive writing? Do they find achieving an unbiased tone and style difficult? Do they struggle with presenting a considered and judicious personal opinion based on the pertinent arguments from both sides of a debate? This resources pack is designed to help you teach your students the discursive style. The resources - apart from the boxing fact sheet - will support any topic you wish to use with the class.
The resources include:

1. A short video to help students understand the style and purpose of discursive writing.
2. An exemplar to use (tablets in the classroom) to help identify the style, tone and purpose of discursive writing.
3. A Knowledge Organiser to support sentence openers and encourage the use of adverbials and conjunctions.
4. A boxing fact sheet covering some of the arguments for and against boxing.
5. Teachers notes suggesting possible structure for the lesson and a suggested task for a discursive article based on the boxing fact sheet.
6. There is a power point that displays all the resources if you do not want to print whole class sets or that you can add slides to and adapt for your classroom.