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Persuasive writing KS2 – Features, examples & best lesson plans

Help kids put together a convincing argument, whether it’s in an essay, advert, debate or letter, with these lessons, ideas, activities and more…

Need to turn hesitant writers into persuasive prodigies? Wondering how to inspire your class to craft powerful arguments? Can we persuade you to take a look at our persuasive writing KS2 resources?

What is persuasive writing?

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Persuasive writing tries to convince the reader to do something or believe something. Adverts, reviews, leaflets and letters can all include persuasion.

KS2 persuasive writing model texts and worksheets

Support children in KS2 to develop their skills of persuasive writing with this persuasive language KS2 text types pack from literacy resources website Plazoom. It features:

• two persuasive letter writing model texts
• persuasive writing techniques checklist
• vocabulary bank
• writing plan

Pie Corbett’s Alex Rider persuasive writing lesson

Break out the gadgets and take your class undercover with Pie Corbett’s Alex Rider-themed look at persuasive writing . Children can design and advertise their own spy gadgets with these examples and exercises.

‘Eating insects’ persuasive writing topic for KS2

This 43-page download from literacy resources website Plazoom contains plans and resources for a series of five lessons centred on a unique ‘writing for a purpose’ activity – convincing a teacher to eat insects!

The lessons in this pack aim to give children the opportunity to rehearse persuasive arguments and create a piece of persuasive writing via a series of distinct stages.

George’s Marvellous Medicine lesson plan

In George’s Marvellous Medicine, deodorant is described as ‘Nevermore Ponking Deodorant Spray, guaranteed to keep away unpleasant body smells for a whole day’.

Task children with writing their own persuasive slogans for a variety of everyday products. Can they persuade other class members to buy their product? Get the free lesson plan here .

Practise persuasive writing skills with Topical Tuesday

Plazoom has a large archive of free Topical Tuesdays resources . Each resource features a news story from First News and accompanying reading and writing activities for KS2 students. For example, in the resource highlighted here , pupils are tasked with writing an advert designed to attract more people into teaching.

Write a persuasive menu

In this free lesson plan , pupils will imagine they are opening a restaurant. How will they write a menu that persuades customers to try the different dishes? You’ll look at emotive language and phrasing as well as concepts such as superlatives. Experiment with grammar to make the dishes sound as appealing as possible.

Write to your headteacher

This Morning I Met a Whale by Michael Morpurgo provides children the chance to explore environmental issues and their role and voice in society.

Read the book then send a persuasive letter to your school council or headteacher, asking for whole-school support on an environmental issue. This free PDF contains all the details.

Sentence starters

Download these free sentence starters by teacher Collette Waddle to give your pupils a host of imaginative ideas to dip into. They cover advertisements and persuasion, among other topics, and feature:

• Rhetorical question starters
• How to start a sentence with a verb
• Persuasive statements
• Useful adjectives
• Phrases to provide evidence
• Initial phrases and ending phrases

This free modal verbs KS2 PowerPoint offers a comprehensive and interactive exploration of modal verbs and their application in persuasive writing. Children will undertake a writing challenge where they argue persuasively for their choice of school subject.

Writing features challenge

These worksheets from Plazoom are an excellent way to develop children’s understanding and use of persuasive writing in KS2.

There are a number of activities that demonstrate different types of persuasive writing, along with a model text, examples of adverts, and writing challenges.

Recycling poster activity

Use this free worksheet from Oxford University Press to create persuasive writing posters promoting the benefits of recycling.

Check out our persuasive writing techniques resources for KS3/4.

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7 techniques for generating story writing ideas in ks2, key stage 2 is a great time for children..

Typically, they will have settled into the flow of learning new subjects, and as KS2 teachers you get to help them flourish by practising, repeating and refining their learnt skills. When it comes to teaching literacy this also means encouraging your class’s creativity. 

However, on occasion creativity can be hard to come by and story writing lessons might not produce the outcomes you were hoping for. To help you combat this, here are some techniques and ideas to help you inspire your class with creative writing tasks.  

1. Create a Classroom Story Generator 

Write the ideas on paper and cut them out, then fold them up so you can’t see what’s written on them.

Find three bags (or any kind of container). Place all the folded character ideas in the first bag, the scenes in the second and the situations/tasks in the third. Ask each pupil to come up and draw a folded piece of paper from each bag. This will be the start of their story. Alternatively, you could build up five story-starting sentences from the bags and write them on the board. Your class could then choose which story they want to write.

Here are some examples to get you started:

You can tailor the ideas to suit your pupils’ abilities, age and preferences, which should really help to spark their imaginations.

2.  Watch or Listen

It doesn’t have to be long or have any dialogue, but showing a short film to your class may help to trigger inspiration. Luckily there are literally millions of free videos available for this kind of thing. Vet them first to make sure they are completely suitable for your class, then turn down the lights and press play. You can show the video more than once, maybe asking the children to write notes on the second viewing which will help to inspire their stories. 

Alternatively try playing a piece of instrumental music and ask your class to imagine what might be happening. Write their ideas and thoughts on the board and ask them to use this as the inspiration for a story.

3.  Folklore and Fairy Tales 

4.  Storyboards

You’re not asking your class to be artists; they can use simple stick figures and words to get their ideas down on paper. But asking your class to draw out their ideas will help them generate some interesting story twists. By getting the structure of their stories down on paper in a sequence, they will know the beginning, middle and end of their stories so when they come to start writing it out there’s not an ounce of KS2 writers block in sight!

5.  A Newspaper Clipping

Newspapers can be a huge source of inspiration. Interesting or unusual stories can be cut out and stuck into a scrap book to bring out and show your class in times of creative need! Alternatively, you could show your whole class a newspaper clipping and ask them all to write a story about the same extract.

6.  Rewrite A Known Story 

Rewriting a known story with a different ending or a different character is a great way to generate inspiration. This technique for generating story ideas can’t fail to produce results since the possibilities are endless!

For example:

• What if Little Red Riding Hood lived in a jungle instead of a forest?
• What if the three little pigs were the three little wolves instead, and the big bad pig wanted to eat them for his dinner?
• What if Hansel and Gretel were actually the bad ones and wanted to eat the old lady?
• What if you asked your class to swap the characters in one story with the characters in another – Snow White and the Magic Beans, Jack and the Seven Dwarves. Let your class’s imaginations run free and look forward to reading the end results!

7.  Let the Children Choose

Set some homework for the children to go away and think of something they care about, something they are interested in, something which makes them happy, sad or angry and why that is. You could ask them to find a picture or a news story themselves which sparks their interest or emotion.

From the ideas generated at home, ask them to write a story in class. Passion is a wonderful muse after all, so if the children choose a topic that they really care about you should end up with some very good results!

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These bright and engaging worksheets encourage KS2 children to edit and improve their writing. They'll revise and practise techniques for writing more ambitious and interesting sentences.

The sheets offer five different challenges to help KS2 children edit and improve their writing. These fall under the headings 'understand', 'explain', 'challenge', 'test' and 'apply'.

These can be completed during a single lesson, spread over a number of sessions, or used for homework. The questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and use interesting images to spark children’s imaginations.

This primary resource is divided into five sections:

• Understand Look at the 10 dull sentences. After each one, improve it using any of the techniques from the box provided.
• Explain Look at the pictures and write a sentence for each one. Can you find eight different ways to make interesting sentences?
• Test Look at the pairs of text. In each one, the blue writing is an improved version of the green writing. After each pair, write how the blue sentences have improved on the green sentences.
• Challenge Write two sentences about each of the pictures provided. Use your writing skills to create sentences as interesting as possible and impossible to improve.
• Apply What is happening here? Write a story based on the picture. Try to use a wide variety of techniques to keep your writing interesting.

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• evaluate and edit by assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements
• evaluate and edit by proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency, including the accurate use of pronouns in sentences

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Ancient Greece's Most Influential Discussion Based Text Writing Unit | Year 5 or Year 6

Subject: English

Age range: 7-11

Resource type: Unit of work

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A discussion writing unit allowing students to research, discuss and write about who was the most influential figure from Ancient Greece: Aristotle, Alexander the Great or Socrates. The unit has been split into four separate lessons which and is perfect for students in Year 5 or Year 6.

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• Three informational texts about the individual leaders
• A fact sheet to record key facts about the famous figures
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The first lesson involves students retrieving facts from informational texts about Aristotle, Alexander the Great and Socrates, and writing these on to a fact sheet. In the second lesson students need to use these facts to write three to four paragraphs about the individual figures. In the third lesson students need to use prompt sheets to write up an introduction and a conclusion. In the final lesson your class will need to check their draft paragraphs for mistakes before writing up their work on a neat copy using the template provided.

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