Struggling to get your students to wrap their heads around persuasive language features? Look no further. This resource helps students break down persuasive writing by identifying key language features in context.
Students work through engaging persuasive texts, highlighting language features and recording their findings using the Language Features Hunt (Text Detective) worksheets.
Why you’ll love this resource:
This moves beyond simple worksheets. Students engage with real texts to see how persuasive language features work together and how they can apply them in their own writing.
It includes deconstruction tasks that allow students to rebuild texts first, supporting their understanding of persuasive structure before identifying language features.
Language Devices Include:
- Sequencing connectives
- Sentence starters
- Exaggeration
- Rhetorical questions
- Modality words
- Facts
- Emotive language
- Personal pronouns
What's included:
- Language Features Hunt (Text Detective) worksheets (differentiated)
- 5 deconstructed texts for reconstruction
- 5 persuasive texts
- Persuasive Writing Devices strip
- Colour + BW versions
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