Help your Year 4 students bump up their persuasive writing! This Persuasive Writing Bump It Up resource will help them see exactly what quality persuasive writing looks like and how to achieve it. This Bump It Up Writing Wall makes writing growth visible using A, B and C examples aligned to the Australian Curriculum.
It includes student friendly I Can statements and aligned student goal writing and reflection checklists. Detailed teacher annotations that explain exactly what improves between each level. Exemplar texts are designed to build understanding of how to improve language features, objective and subjective language, text structure and vocabulary (the big wins!).
⭐What's included:
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3 Exemplar Bump It Up texts that clearly show C, B and A level (Australian Curriculum v9)
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Annotated model texts in addition to student examples
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Detailed teacher notes teacher notes that identify and clearly explain the evidence from the exemplars to show what has 'lifted'
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Individual Writing Goal & Reflection Sheets that unpack each I Can statement into clear action steps and success criteria, helping students identify evidence of progress in their own writing.
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I Can Statements writing goals
- Editable I Can Statements to add personalised learning goals
- Year 4 Persuasive Writing Marking Guide
- Labels for the Bump It Up Wall.
- Colour and Black and White resources for flexibility.
The model texts argue for a change to the school environment: Growing native plants. The texts are based on student writing samples moderated by experienced teachers. They can be used to demonstrate quality writing in any persuasive writing unit. They support assessment, goal setting, and meaningful writing growth.
There are two parts to this resource - the students' Bump It Up Writing Wall AND the annotated teacher exemplar texts. This is not a wall display - it is a persuasive writing toolkit!
⭐Why this resource is unique:
The annotated writing exemplars and teacher guide will take the guess work out of knowing what to look for in your students' persuasive writing. Every annotation explains exactly why the writing has improved informing feedback, teaching, moderation and assessment.
⭐Perfect as a guide for any teacher.
Whether you are new to teaching, or have many years' experience, you will find these annotations incredibly helpful to boost students writing!
⭐You can use the annotated examples to
- identify what to teach next,
- give explicit feedback to students about how to improve their writing
- strengthen moderation decisions using the curriculum aligned models
- explicit writing lessons
- moderation
- planning during the teaching cycle
- writing conferences
- student goal setting
- assessment and reporting
- parent and caregiver interviews & discussions
⭐Why teachers and curriculum leaders love this resource:
- aligned to Australian Curriculum Year 4 English v9
- annotations clearly explain what improved and why
- supports consistent moderation and assessment conversations
- detailed annotations make knowing what to teach for writing growth clear
- clearly demonstrates the progression between C, B and A achievement levels
- designed from real classroom moderation and writing instruction by experienced teachers
