This PowerPoint Presentation is a great introduction to a ‘sales pitch’ style unit using persuasive writing techniques in which they are required to create their own chocolate bar to pitch. There is enough content on this to be used over many lessons. The presentation first explains what a sales pitch is and shows a child friendly example of one. Then the children look at some examples of chocolate bar wrappers before being quizzed on some slogans for existing chocolate bars. It also goes into more depth about sales pitches and offers opportunities for the children to act out some examples and find the persuasive techniques in them. There is also a success criteria checklist for the children to check that they have everything included in their own, such as a rhetorical question, hand gestures and eye contact. I did this with my Primary 5 (Year 4) students and they absolutely loved it!

This worksheet is for the children to plan out their sales pitch for a chocolate bar they will create. It allows the students to discuss in their groups and write down their ideas. I got my students to do this before creating the packaging for their chocolate bar and creating the script for their pitch.