Persuasive Letter
Persuasive Letter
So what is a persuasive
letter?
What is persuasive writing?
Where might we see
persuasive writing?
What forms could it take?
What persuasive writing
have we written before?
Think and Share
What is a persuasive
letter?
A persuasive letter is
written to someone to let
them know your opinion
on something. It is written
to persuade them to
agree with you and take
action.
Friday 1st May 2020
LI: To write a persuasive letter.
Success Criteria: I can…
*follow my plan carefully.
*use the success criteria I have been working on.
*write using fluent, legible, joined handwriting.
There are some important things to remember when writing a persuasive letter.
You have to lay out your letter properly:
• Write your address.
• Write the address of who you are
writing to (the recipient’s address).
• Write a greeting (the recipient’s name).
• Write the full date.
• Write about the topic and persuade
your reader.
• Close your letter.
• Write your full name.
Persuasive Letter Writing
Structure Features
Intro
3 paragraphs for your arguments/reasons
Conclusion
What language
features would you see?
Use mainly the present tense.
Use logical and cause and effect connectives.
Use emotive language.
Use technical language.
Use rhetorical questions.
Dare the reader to disagree.
Try to make opinions sound like facts.
Use powerful verbs and strong adjectives.
Choose your best 3 arguments for William staying in the countryside with Mister Tom and develop the ideas.
Don’t forget to use De: de sentences, Some; others, great sentence openers and of course
parenthesis.
Try to use these persuasive
openers! Follow the correct structure!
Intro
3 paragraphs for your arguments/reasons
Conclusion
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Sentence writingActivity
Use the Success Criteria to include all the features in your letter.
Self assess your work
CHECK YOUR WORK
Have you used a variety of appropriate sentence openers ?
Have you used the colon and semi-colon correctly?
Have you used complex sentences?
Have you tried to vary your punctuation and checked your commas that separate clauses?
Have you used formal language throughout?
Are you writing at the Year 6 Standard?
What evidence do you have to support this?
What improvements
could you make?