Teaching Writing Persuasive

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TEACHING

WRITING:Persuasive Text

Curriculum Team CSO


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2011 NAPLAN WritingIn the 2011 NAPLAN Writing test, students in Years 3,5, 7 and 9 will write a persuasive text.

Persuasive writing is writing in which the writer needsto convince someone of his or her point of view or

opinion.

For example, a student may be asked whetherreading books or watching TV is better.

The student would present his or her opinion on this

topic and would include reasons for thatopinion.

In writing this way, the student is attempting topersuade the reader to agree with his or her opinion.

http://www.naplan.edu.au/verve/_resources/NAPLAN_2011_Writing_Fact_Sheet.pdf


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Persuasive writing

The topic and task will be the same forYears 3 5 7 and 9

It will be marked in a way that closelyresembles narrative writing as there iscommon criteria


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Talking & listening

Reading

Writing


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In the literate citizen..all theserepertoires are variously mixedand orchestrated in proficientreading and writing, speaking

and listening, viewing andrepresenting

Luke and Freebody 1999


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Note

Whenever the word text isused it includes

written, visual, oral/aural,

digital and multimodal texts


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Persuasive vs Narrative

persuasive writing assesses rhetoricaltechniques (writers viewpoint)

narrative writing assesses thedevelopment of character and setting.


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*Text types / Purpose

Exposition To present an opinion; to argue a case for or against a

particular position or point of view

Discussion To look at more than one side of an issue; to present

arguments for and against a position, based on evidence,

before coming to a conclusion

Personal

Response

To summarise and respond personally to a text

Review To summarise / analyse a literary text and assess its

appeal and value


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Activity

Task cards


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What do we ask of ourstudents?

Middle class

Anglo Saxon

English


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Structure Exposition

State thesis or position:

Write a series of paragraphs to arguethe position:

Sum up, restate the position or

provide a recommendation:


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Grammar-Exposition

General nouns ears zoos

Abstract nouns policy government

Technical words species of animals

Relating verbs It is important Action verbs We must save

Thinking verbs Many people believe

Modal verbs We must preserve

Modal adverbs Certainly we must try

Connectives firstly secondly

Evaluative language important significant


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Structure - Discussion

State the issue:

A series of paragraphs to argue forthe issue:

A series of paragraphs to argue

against the issue:

Concludes by summing up orproviding a recommendation:


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Grammar - Discussion

General nouns uniforms alcohol

Relating verbs is are have

Thinking verbs feel believe hope

Connectives Additive similarly

Contrastive on the other hand

Causal however

Noun groups unwanted kittens

Modality perhaps must should may

Adverbs of manner deliberately hopefully


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Structure_Personal Response

Context for the response:

Writes an opinion or reaction:


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Grammar Personal Response

All types of verbs

Noun groups describing characters

Present tense

Past tense if historical setting

Temporal sequence of events

Persuasive language used in

judgement Clause or sentence themes that are

often title of the book. Author


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Structure - Review

Context giving information aboutauthor, work, setting and summary:

Paragraphs describing maincharacters, relationships and themeof text:

Judgement by evaluating the workgiving opinion or recommendation:


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Language features / Grammar Opinion adjective

Generalised nouns

Words that qualify-usually, probably, some, most

Connectives also, another reason, as well, however,therefore

Thinking & feeling verbs

Emotive language-hero, champion, bloodshed, disaster

Adjectives (modal)

Evaluative language

conjunctions


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Persuasive Texts-Criteria

Audience

The writers capacity to orient, engageand persuade the reader

Text structure

The organisation of the structuralcomponents of a persuasive text

(introduction, body and conclusion) intoan appropriate and effective textstructure


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Ideas

The creation, selection and crafting ofideas for a persuasive argument

Persuasive devices

The use of a range of persuasive devicesto enhance the writers position andpersuade the reader


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Vocabulary

The range and precision of languagechoices

Cohesion

The control of multiple threads andrelationships over the whole text,

achieved through the use of referringwords, substitutions, word associationsand text connectives


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Paragraphing

The segmenting of text into paragraphsthat assists the reader to follow the line

of argument

Sentence structure

The production of grammatically correct,

structurally sound and meaningfulsentences


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Punctuation

The use of correct and appropriatepunctuation to aid the reading of the text

Spelling

The accuracy of spelling and the difficultyof the words used


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Activity

Assisting students in improvingtheir writing


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Sample Task

http://www.naplan.edu.au/verve/_resources/persuasive_prompt.pdf


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Useful websites

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/persuasion-30034.html

http://www.writingfun.com/writingfun2010.html


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Exploring the Modules

What is the expectationfor each stage?

Documents

Teaching Writing Persuasive