These scaffolded writing supports help children to write a persuasive speech about the dangers of climate change.
Children will write a persuasive speech to ask people to address the climate change issues. These can be used for a TEDX event.
Uses MY turn YOUR turn and sentence stems.
Outstanding unit
Call to action to save our world.
Children will create a speech based around the effects of global warming.
They will explore the issues such as farming, transport, effects on oceans and different biodiversities.
Linked to the UAE COP28 children create a speech for a TEDX event.
Can obviously be adapted to suit a range of events globally linked to climate change.
8 lessons outlined below with WAGOLL, Seesaw stuck station with word mat and videos, success criterias and WAVE3 writing templates to support inclusion students etc.
Lesson 1 - Immersion
Lesson 2 - Reading lesson (texts available from twinkl)
Lesson 3 - Identify structural features of speech
Lesson 4 - Identify language features AFORESTPIE
Lesson 5 - Planning
Lesson 6 - Writing introduction
Lesson 7 - Writing main points
Lesson 8 - Writing conclusion and call to action
Success criterias for writing unit.
Writing unit encourages children to write a persuasive speech for a TEDx event based around climate change. Links to COP28 in UAE.
The success criteria used AFORESTPIE to support writing.
Planning template to go along with COP28 persuasive speeches around climate change. Children create speech for TEDX talks.
Template uses AFORESTPIE and speech structure to plan speech.
Additionally PEE pargraph structure can be used to plan speech.
This is a collection of 8 lessons which teach children how to write a persuasive speech about the dangers of climate change.
Children create a TEDX talk linked to COP28 held in UAE. This can eaisly be adapted to link to other events globally.
The speech is structured to encourage children and adults to make a change.
Lesson 1 - Immersion
Lesson 2 - Reading lesson about different issues that impact climate change such as farming, transport, biodiversity etc (Twinkl texts not included but can be downloaded)
Lesson 3 - Features structure of speech
Lesson 4 - AFORESTPIE language features of speech
Lesson 5 - Planning
Lesson 6 - Write introduction
Lesson 7 - Write Main Points
Lesson 8 - Write final call to action and conclusion
**There is also a stuck station which will link to Seesaw with word mats and videos to support writing. **
Each writing lesson is supported by a WAGOLL which focuses on AFORESTPIE language features.
This communication ladder is used to develop speaking and listening skills from FS to Year 1.
Steps 1 - 12
The document outlines the key objectives and breaks them down into teaching points to focus on.
We have used this to plan poetry slams, debates, public speaking and TEDX events.
A carefully written explanation text outlining the process of an earthquake.
Contains the following Y6 objectives:
Shift in formality
Advanced punctuation
Cohesion (fronted adverbials, causal conjunctions, relative clauses, parenthesis, semicolons)
Also:
Rhetorical questions
Parenthesis
Author’s purpose
This resource was used to create a WW2 diary recount from a child’s point of view during The Blitz.
It contains introduction phrases, emotive language, adjectives to describe emotion, adverbial phrases, prepositional phrases and figurative language.
This word mat contains nouns, adjectives, verbs, verb phrases, prepositional phrases and figurative language.
It supports with appearance, sound and movement.
This resource was used to write an explanation text all about the circulatory system.
It contains a success criteria, passive voice examples, adverbials, cause and effect conjunctions and key words.
This is an editable document which can be used to enable children to uplevel their own work using rainbow editing and purple pen.
Referenced in units of work belonging to my account.
This resource contains a PPT which guides children through the writing process for biographies.
There are links to a Blendspace where all resources support learners in the writing journey.
Please note:
Research lesson - you will need to create your own Padlet page for this.
Includes 2 grammar lessons linked to relative clauses and passive voice
Starter activities - spelling rules and SPaG
Editing throughout writing build up.
**Please download separate Rainbow editing sheet to support. **
LO overviews:
LO – To read and explore and range of biographies
LO – Research key information about Malala Yousafzai
LO- To memorise key information about Malala Yousufzai
LO – To use and identify passive voice
LO- To effectively use relative clauses in my writing
LO – To plan a biography about Malala Yousafzai
LO- To write an introductory paragraph about Malala Yousafzai
LO- To use a range of sentence structures within my writing
LO- To use active and passive voice in my writing