The Iron Man Persuasive Letter Example Text Pack

An example persuasive letter text written from Hogarth to the Iron Man, plus feature find worksheets and answers, differentiated planning sheets and rhetorical question sentence starter sheet. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading Chapter 4 of Ted Hughes’s novel.

Resources provided:
• Exemplar persuasive letter text
• Feature Find worksheets
• Feature Find answers
• Differentiated planning sheets x3
• Rhetorical question sentence starter sheet

The model letter is from Hogarth to the Iron Man to persuade him to help defeat the Space-Dragon. Pupils read the model persuasive letter, examine its features using the Feature Find worksheets and then plan and write their own letters.

The following language, grammar and punctuation features can be found in the WAGOLL:
• Rule of three
• Repetition for effect
• Asyndeton
• Alliteration
• Rhetorical questions
• Exclamatory sentences (starting with how or what)
• Emotive language
• Second person
• Fronted adverbials followed by commas
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Relative pronouns
• Adverbs of degree
• Conjunctive adverbs
• Expanded noun phrases
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Modal verbs
• Apostrophes for possession
• Commas in lists
• Exclamation marks
• Question marks
• Hyphens
• Colons
• Semi-colons

The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.

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