Looking for a comprehensive writing unit that explicitly teaches both persuasive and narrative writing? This engaging PowerPoint has been designed to guide students through the structure, language features, and writing techniques needed to become confident and successful writers.
Perfect for Year 3 and above, this resource includes clear explanations, examples, modelling opportunities, planning templates, and scaffolded writing supports to help students develop their writing skills with increasing independence.
What's Included?
Persuasive Writing
- Purpose and features of persuasive texts
- Explicit teaching of persuasive devices (AFOREST)
- Hooks and engaging introductions
- Facts vs opinions
- Rhetorical questions
- Emotive language
- Statistics
- Repetition
- Rule of Three (Triples)
- High modality language
- Persuasive text structure (Introduction, Body Paragraphs, Conclusion)
- Sentence stems and scaffolds
- Planning templates
- Writing prompts
- Editing checklist
Narrative Writing
- Narrative structure (Beginning, Build-Up, Problem, Resolution, Ending)
- Sizzling Starts
- Show Don't Tell (STEAL strategy)
- Dynamic Dialogue
- Tightening Tension
- Exciting Endings
- Ban the Boring
- Figurative language techniques:
- Similes
- Metaphors
- Personification
- Alliteration
- Adjectives
- Planning templates
- Writing prompts
- Editing checklist
Why Teachers Love This Resource
✔ Explicit teaching slides with student-friendly language
✔ Gradual release model – teach, model, practise, write
✔ Scaffolded sentence stems for developing writers
✔ Opportunities for independent and guided writing
✔ Supports differentiation through planning templates and challenge levels
✔ Ready to use – simply display and teach!
This unit is ideal for whole-class writing lessons, literacy blocks, relief teaching, intervention groups, and writing workshops. Save planning time while giving your students the tools they need to become engaging, confident writers.
