Persuasive Writing - General Election Leaflets

A literacy topic of four lessons focusing on persuasive writing. This topic looks at four parties' leaflets, with a child-friendly approach to politics. The main point of disagreement is how much playtime children should get. There is a 'moderate party' which demonstrates the appeal of a middle-of-the-road approach, whilst drawing attention to the more extreme views of the other parties, who want to abolish/dramatically extent break. The fourth party is a 'bad' example, which doesn't highlight any policies. An activity could look at improving this party's leaflet.

The PP includes a word of the day, focusing on unfamiliar words within the topic, and sentence level work focusing on brackets and repetition. The first lesson extracts the success criteria from the examples, the second lesson is hot-seating a party leader, and the third lesson is planning/writing. The PP is quite open for modifications. Great for 'British Values'.