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KS3, KS4
Years 7-11
This free persuasive writing scheme for KS3/4 by teacher James Tickle contains 17 lessons’ worth of material. It covers speeches, informal and formal letters, articles and more…
Focus of lessons
1: Introduce students to the writing criteria and basic persuasive devices
2: Increase awareness of speech structure and persuasive devices specific to speeches
3: Practise writing in a GCSE speech format, targeting a specific audience
4: Use counter-arguments and develop ideas into extended arguments through guided writing
5: Display what you’ve learnt so far about speeches via an assessment
6: Gain awareness of formal letter structures and practise writing addresses and an opening
7: Comparatively analyse two persuasive texts and demonstrate your understanding
8: Develop redrafting ability by producing a high-quality complaint letter
9: 5: Display what you’ve learnt so far about formal letters via an assessment
10: Understand the structure of an informal letter and develop the ability to use different tones in your writing
11: Comparatively analyse two persuasive texts and demonstrate your understanding
12: Practise your ability to write in the GCSE informal letter structure and develop sentence structures
13: Display what you’ve learnt so far about informal letters via an assessment
14: Understand the format of an article and practise writing in the format
15: Continue practising article formats and sentence structures
16: Consolidate knowledge of articles
17: Display what you’ve learnt so far about articles via an assessment
Assessment focus
AO4: Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references
AO5: Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences. Organise information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion of texts
AO6: Candidates must use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation
National curriculum link
Evaluate texts critically; communicate clearly, effectively & imaginatively, with accurate SPaG
These resources were created by teacher James Tickle. Browse more persuasive writing techniques resources for KS3/4 and GCSE English speaking and listening topics. We also have persuasive writing KS2 resources.
