Persuasive Writing Paragraphs: Sample & Checklist

Make teaching persuasive writing paragraphs easier with this ready-to-print resource. Suitable for Year 5 students, this resource follows the Australian Curriculum.

The sample paragraph is a useful teaching tool to show a persuasive paragraph structure. This persuasive paragraph is an interactive activity as students can use it to complete the strategies checklist. Even better, use this as a warm-up for a writing lesson where students identify the persuasive devices in the paragraph.

This persuasive writing checklist is also available to print for students to have next to their independent work. As well as this, the sample paragraph can be a modelled anchor chart, Therefore, it is useful as a display to refer back to during a persuasive writing unit.

This resource includes a graphic organiser template to support students in writing their independent text. Furthermore, two versions are available to make differentiation in your learning space easier. Both persuasive writing graphic organisers will help students structure their paragraphs and draft their essays.

To complete this resource, the persuasive writing strategies checklist is available to print for all students. It prints out at a perfect size to cut and paste next to your students’ writing. This makes it easy for students to use the checklist and ensure they are including as many persuasive devices as they can.

In this printable resource, you will get:

• A sample of a persuasive text
• Persuasive strategies checklist
• Two differentiated graphic organiser templates

With the pages ready to print and no preparation required, using this resource in your persuasive writing lesson is a breeze.

This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum for Year 5 Writing: 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