1. PERSUASION Australia Curriculum Writing overview Classroom practice
NAPLAN focus
and beyond
ICT

2. CHALLENGES Planning Generic Time limit Spelling and grammar Ideas
Can’t elaborate detail
Waffle
Generic
Time limit
Spelling and grammar

3. REMEDIES Explicit direct instruction (I do)
Collaboration with peers (We do)
Individual practise (You do)
Timely feedback and conferencing
Environmental print scaffolds
Narrow focus on text type
Remedy a lot of these challenges is with the direct instruction model

4. 3 STAGE APPROACH 1) Mechanics and template (7-8 weeks)
2) Extending the creative (2 weeks)
3) Exploring the genre (6-10 weeks)

5. EXPLICIT TEACHING Tennis analogy – more effective?
- ‘’Go play” vs. Skill chunking.
Gradual Release
Modelling (I do)
Interaction with others (We do)
Solo practise (you do)

6. NAPLAN The goal of persuasive writing is to persuade!
Engage reader (audience 6 marks)
Strong Ideas (5 marks)
Plan Powerfully (Structure 4 marks – cohesion 4 marks)
Persuade Reader (Devices 4 marks)
Spelling and Grammar (11/48)
First phase of attack – hurdle that is naplan

7. PLANNING & IDEAS
Strong piece of writing is always based on great ideas.
Teaching Planning only = 2 weeks
Planning to time limit (5 mins)
Great ideas lay at the foundation of any piece of writing
Challenging – nimble, time constraint
Ideas that are relevant, let alone persuasive

8. Walk in and this hits them

9. BRAINSTORMING Creativity can be practised.
Students will struggle at first
Skill comes with practise
Ignore test instructions, analyse the pictures.
TEST TIP - Don’t walk around the room
People standing behind you raises blood pressure and intrudes on concentration.
Police interrogation tactic

10. BRAINSTORMING Class, group, solo practise Sort and group ideas
Thinking on their feet games
Drama improv. Games
Sort and group ideas
Strongest to weakest
Combine or drop
Patterns emerge.
5 min persuasion quickies
Improv games

11. COLLABORATION (WE DO) Interaction – Laughter and learning.
Emphasis on oral to literate
H.O.T.S
Judge/Jury
4 Corners
Verbal boxing
Group Brainstorming
Role Plays

12. GRAPHIC ORGANISER K.I.S – 4 Square planner
Easiest = no pre drawn boxes or templates
Strong plan = excellent marks for
Ideas (5)
Cohesion (4)
Structure (4)
Paragraphing (3)
Experimented with a lot of graphic organisers and planners, but the 4 square = best and easiest.

13. 4 SQUARE PLANNER

14. PLANNING TIPS - Separate brainstorming and planning from writing.
- 2 different timeslots
- Thinking = most important

15. AUDIENCE Imagine writing to a friendly adult or teacher
Makes the tone less stilted and generic.

16. ACTIVITY Draw a portrait of the person you write to.
Display these pictures near the persuasive environmental print as a ‘’faces of inspiration gallery’’

17. ACTIVITY
Student ad agencies are in charge of marketing flavoured milk to a particular audience.
Use appropriate persuasive devices and language for their audience.
Kids - Older people
Teens - Athletes/Sporty People
Busy mums and dads - Weight Conscious

18. INTRODUCTIONS vs. SIZZLING STARTS
Boring but safe
Scaffolded write by numbers approach
Good as a fall back for writers block
Formula
Rhetorical question +
Opinion +
Preview 3 Ideas +
Engage Reader (we….)
Security blanket
Boys like write by numbers approach

19. RISK-TAKING & EXCITING
Why write something ordinary when you can write something amazing?
Facts don’t necessarily change minds, the 3 E’s do!
Engagement + Emotion + Energy

20. SIZZLING STARTS Before After
– I think books are better than TV because 1)…2)….3). Let me explain.
After
I’m in a fantasy land far away, magical and mysterious. I am a sorcerer, a power, a leader of thousands. Ok, I admit it. I’m in bed reading a book. T.V. just doesn’t compete.

21. ACTIVITY Three Word Challenge
Pair students. Each person writes 3 words on a piece of paper e.g. soup, racing, invisible
Swap papers – 2 mins to write a persuasive Sizzling Start using 3 words.
Randomness gets kids thinking outside square, i.e. creatively
Imagine this, picture this…..

22. ELLABORATION Challenge – students can find ideas, but can’t elaborate
A- Alliteration
F- Facts
O- Opinions
R- Rhetorical Questions/R- Repetition
E- Examples/Experts/Emotive Language
S- Statistics
T- Rule of Three

24. ETHOS , LOGOS, PATHOS
The most enlightening passage of Aristotle’s rhetoric is his identification of three core facets of a good arguer.  These were:
Pathos: appeal to the emotion of the audience
Ethos: a sense of credibility and “more competence”
Logos: good logical structure

25. QUOTATIONS
Students research a good quote on the topic of a persuasive theme.
E.g. Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow (Jeff Valdez)
Dogs come when they are called. Cats take a message and get back to you. (Mary Bly)
Another way to add elaboration

26. SHOW DON’T TELL Kids tell because it is quick and simple
Word pictures = empathise and connect
Before – Yes we should help other countries because children in places like Ethiopia are dying without water.
The goal is to persuade. Energy, emotion ,
Advertising Collage
Create a full page spread advertising your school. SHOW the best things about the school to others

27. SHOW
After – Thirsty? Walk into a shop and pick up a bottle of water. Pay a few dollars, unscrew the cap and drink. That’s if you’re lucky and live in Australia. Now take a close look at that small bottle in your hands. If you lived in Ethiopia, that is all the water you have to live on for three days.

28. PERSUASION GRAPH

29. FINAL ARGUMENT
Climax – use questions, rule of 3, short words and sentences
Before – Finally, plastic bags should be banned because they are not as easily disposed of as some people think. They pollute the land and the sea.

30. FINAL PARAGRAPH
After – You think plastic bags are harmless? Tell that to the dolphin with the plastic bag would around its snout, slowly starving to death. You think they’re light and easily thrown out? Over one million bags a week are buried, ditched and dumped in our country. One little bag blowing in the wind couldn’t hurt, could it? One maybe wouldn’t. A million does.

31. END WITH IMPACT 3 Techniques
Link to opening
Show don’t tell
Call to action – tell the reader what to do.
Create a ‘’do something better’’ ending for these campaigns
Clean up your school!
Ban exams!

32. VOCABULARY
Vocab marked separate to spelling, so have students take risks.
‘’I think toys are good’’……isn’t very persuasive
Word walls of emotional vocab
Reinforce words in spelling program
Explicitly teach high modality words
Use modality strengthening exercises and word cloze

33. 4 SQUARE CONNECTIVES

34. VOCABULARY

35. CONVENTIONS Takes a long time to bring a weak speller up to scratch
Work on higher order thinking (planning etc)
More empowering that trying to patch weak spots
Practise, practise, practise words and phrases related to persuasive texts
Words that crop up in written work
Words like ‘’extremely’’ ‘’dangerous’’

36. CONVENTIONS Higher marks for complex punctuation
Brackets, exclamation marks, speech marks
Stronger students use small bits of dialogue to show mastery
Weaker students read work aloud to help with commas and full stops.
Last 5 mins to check work
Hard for kids to focus on detail and big picture thinking at the same time.

37. EDITING Explicitly taught and modelled SWAP & CUPS Peer Editing
Start with a Star? (What do you like)
What do you wonder? (3 questions)
Advice (How to make it better)
Plans for revising (Written by the writer)

38. Capitalisation Usage and Grammar Punctuation Spelling SELF EDITING
CUPS
Capitalisation
Usage and Grammar
Punctuation
Spelling

39. CUPS Read own work aloud 4 times Slows down reading
Ear catches things the eye doesn’t.
Read one time for each aspect of CUPS
Different pen for each stage
Dictionaries
Environmental print
Work with a different student

40. GOALS Integral part of the curriculum Effective communication skills
Challenge other people’s thinking

41. ICT
AMAP – collaborative online maps

42. ICT
Wordle – vocabulary word art

43. ICT
Tagexedo –
Students type in words or phrases and computer makes a word cloud or image.

44. Animoto – Creating ads

45. ICT
Xtranormal -Animated Persuasion