This Persuasive Writing PowerPoint Unit for years 3-4 provides 300+ interactive slides designed to explicitly teach persuasive language features, persuasive devices, and persuasive text structure.
Through 11 scaffolded lessons, students build a clear understanding of how persuasive texts are organised and how persuasive language can be used to influence and convince a reader.
Using a gradual release model (I Do, We Do, You Do), students move from exploring persuasive texts and discussing points of view to identifying persuasive language features, annotating modelled texts, and applying their learning through innovation and consolidation activities.
These explicit slides is divided into two sections:
✪ PART 1: Persuasive Language Features & Devices
Students are explicitly taught persuasive language features through engaging warm-up activities, modelled examples, annotation activities, shared practice, and independent consolidation opportunities. Persuasive devices covered include:
- Sequencing Connectives
- Sentence Starters
- Exaggeration
- Rhetorical Questions
- High Modality Words
- Facts
- Emotive Language
- Personal Pronouns
✪ PART 2: Persuasive Structure
Students explore the structure of persuasive texts through explicit teaching, annotated examples, modelled texts, and scaffolded innovation activities. Students learn how each structural component works together to create an effective persuasive text, including:
- Sizzling Starts
- Arguments
- Conclusions
✪ WHAT'S INCLUDED:
- 300+ Interactive PowerPoint Slides
- Interactive Warm-Up & Revision Activities
- Explicit Teaching Slides
- Annotated Modelled Text Activities
- Interactive Annotation Activities
- Scaffolded Innovation Activities
- Consolidation & Applied Practice Opportunities
- Gradual Release Lesson Structure (I Do, We Do, You Do)
- Teacher Notes & Modelling Support
- Interactive Whiteboard-Friendly Activities
✪ RESOURCE INCLUDED:
- Explicit writing instruction
- Interactive and engaging activities
- Colour-coded annotation system
- Editable text activities
- Drag-and-drop activities
- Oral language opportunities
- Whole-class discussion activities
- Suitable for whole-class instruction, small groups, and intervention settings
✪ WHY THIS WORKS:
Through engaging warm-ups, discussion activities, modelled examples, annotation tasks, scaffolded innovation activities, and independent consolidation opportunities, students develop a deep understanding of how persuasive language works and how persuasive texts are structured. By breaking persuasive writing into manageable steps, students move beyond simply stating an opinion and learn how to persuade, justify their thinking, and support their arguments using persuasive language and text structure.
Perfect for teachers looking for a complete persuasive writing teaching sequence that combines explicit instruction, annotation, innovation, discussion, and independent application.
