Persuasive Strategies Anchor Chart & Examples

Guide students through persuasive writing with this anchor chart, strategies explanations and examples, and writing practice.

This resource is perfect for a persuasive writing lesson for students in grades 5 and 6. It is a comprehensive resource that details explicit persuasive writing strategies. Students will feel confident being guided through the practice activities for the 9 different strategies.

Additionally, there is a detailed list of persuasive writing topics for teacher and student reference. There is also a list of useful vocabulary when writing a persuasive piece.

The anchor chart outlines 9 common persuasive writing strategies in a clear and concise way. There examples of each strategy and useful explanations for students to refer back to.

This resource covers the following persuasive writing strategies:

• Rhetorical question
• Emotive language
• Alliteration
• Evidence and statistics
• Personal pronouns
• Facts and opinions
• Exaggeration
• Rule of 3
• Real-life examples

In this printable resource, you will get:

• 11 pages of persuasive writing resources
• Anchor chart of persuasive writing strategies
• List of persuasive writing topics and useful vocabulary
• 9 persuasive writing strategies explanations, examples, and guided practice

This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum. It is suitable for students in grades 5 and 6. This resource is a useful tool in supporting students with NAPLAN preparation and fostering success in general writing skills.

AC9E5LY06 – plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation

AC9E5LY03 – explain characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text