Persuasive Writing: Cats or Dogs? (Plan and Resources, Key Stage 2)

Children first briefly think of arguments why they think cats or dogs are better pets. This could be a separate prior lesson (instead of the introduction on the lesson plan) where children research on the internet or books this topic and make notes. The next lesson would be writing the persuasive text with a potential final lesson debating verbally which pet is best. General facts are provided for the teacher to work with. A model saying dogs are better is analysed first with a shared write after (either the model or the shared write can be used, or both depending on time available). Children then pick if they will argue that dogs are better or cats are better. Based on Alan Peat's structure and his special sentence types. There are two writing frames: one for lower ability children and the harder one for the rest. The plenary is self-assessment or children read the other view and say if they have changed their mind.