A focus on the impact of emotive language in persuasive writing. One paragraph written with negative emotive language and one written with positive emotive language - both persuading for the same thing. Use this resource to help your pupils pick out the vocabulary and phrases which have an impact on the reader’s emotions and feelings. Ask: What is the overall feeling after reading the paragraph? Give them the paragraph using negative emotive language and ask them to re-write it, changing to positive emotive language but keeping the persuasive sway the same. Or vice versa. A great challenge! Use these paragraphs as a stimulus to writing their own persuasive paragraph with a choice of using negative or positive emotive language.

A persuasive text convincing the audience to participate in the first ever Olympic Games. The structure consists of an introduction, 3 reasons and a conclusion. There are many examples within the text of persuasive techniques and the punctuation and grammar taught at KS2. Remove the brackets at the start of each paragraph as those are there for information purposes only. This text can be used to discuss the structure of persuasive writing, to identify the theme in each paragraph and to identify examples of the features. It can also be used to discuss vocabulary and as a comprehension text (questions are not included).

Year 5 Whole class guided reading plan for Chapter 4 of The Firework-Maker’s Daughter. Extract is Lila’s ascent of Mount Merapi (about half way through the chapter). The focus is exploring a character’s emotions and feelings. Plan includes a pre-reading vocabulary activity, SATs style questions, exploring the text activities and questions which focus on using evicence from the text. All resources and IWB screens included. This will last approximately 2 sessions.