Lesson One: English, Yr 7/9

Introduction to Persuasive Writing

Curriculum links: Year 7 – ACELA1531 Year 9 – ACELA1553

Resources you will need

Lesson structure

  • Run through the Lesson 1 Persuasive Writing PowerPoint slides.
  • Outline to students the direction of the teaching and learning program (initial focus is on persuasive writing, then narrative writing).
  • Explain to students that to help prepare them for the NAPLAN writing task, you will be revising conventions surrounding persuasive writing.
  • Explain that the end result will be students creating a persuasive response, using techniques of persuasion.


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Australian Curriculum Alignment

Learning Area: English
Year Levels: Year 7/Year 9
General Capabilities: CCT, L, PSC, EU, IU
Strands: Text Structure and Organisation
Content Descriptions: 

Year 7 (English Language)

Understand and explain how the text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause and effect, and extended metaphors (ACELA1531)

Year 9 (English Language)

Understand that authors innovate with text structures and language for specific purposes and effects (ACELA1553)
Elaborations:

Year 7

Learning about the structure of the book or film review and how it moves from context description to text summary and then to a text judgment.

Year 9

Experimenting with ways to present personal viewpoints through innovating with texts.
Cross-Curricular Priority:

Sustainability
Acknowledgments

This Australian Curriculum alignment statement is based on the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) materials, which are licensed under CC BY 4.0. The material has been modified from the Australian Curriculum website (accessed April 2019).

All activities have been created by educators for educators and are linked to the Australian Curriculum (Version 8.4). We advise teachers to consult the ACARA website for the most up-to-date curriculum outcomes.

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