Argue and persuade

A KS3 pack designed to help students understand and identify persuasive techniques and apply them to their own writing.

The pack is split into sections and features a range of practical and engaging activities aimed at familiarising students with persuasive writing, including: speeches, letters and leaflets, articles, argumentative writing, revision and exam preparation.

What’s included?
KS3 curriculum assessment objective map
Lesson plans and ideas along with tailor-made resources.

What’s inside?
Each lesson plan contains detailed teaching notes with:
Suggested starter activities
Suggested main activities
Suggested plenary activities
Suggested additional creative activities

Assessment Objective map (pages ii-v)
Introduction - summary of the pack (page 1)
Teaching notes and lesson plans (pages 2-14)
Route through – part one: familiarising students with persuasive writing
Route through – part two: speeches
Route through – part three: letters and leaflets
Route through – part four: articles
Route through – part five: focusing on argumentative writing
Route through – part six: revision and exam preparation

Teaching resources and activities for persuasive and argumentative writing (pages 15-135)
Persuasive role play
Persuading your parents
Can you sell a house?
Flog that house!
Planet perfect!
Save my dog!
Persuasive techniques bingo
What’s your learning style?
Winston Churchill speech excerpt
Comparing persuasive speeches
Cats are better than dogs
England riots persuasive speech analysis
Writing a speech
Young people’s council meeting
Rewriting for audience and purpose
Analysing a leaflet
Kick-start discussion slides
Recipe for a formal letter
Rat o’burger
‘Send a cow’ practice questions and answers
Preparation of a leaflet
Theme park persuasive writing leaflet
Self-assessment review
Writing to persuade checklist
Fact or opinion
Tabloid or broadsheet?
Newspaper bias
Lead articles
Analysing an opinion article
Writing a feature article
Why use quotations?
How to use quotations effectively
Using a newspaper as a stimulus
Editorial decisions
Summarise that!
Categorising connectives
Hinges, bolts and sealers
Effective introductions
Building an argument
Writing for different purposes
The man on the wall story problem
To argue or persuade
Literacy placemat
Speed dating revision
Writing revision fan
Top grade persuasion
All fun and games revision
Card template
Domino template
Fishing template
Analysing persuasive texts
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