Navigating NAPLAN - Lesson Six - Share, Reflect, Redraft

Resource Description

Our Navigating NAPLAN resources are designed to help Australian English teachers prepare students for the annual NAPLAN writing assessments.  These resources focus on narrative and persuasive writing, and are aligned with the Australian Curriculum (Years 7 & 9).  

Developed and reviewed by a team of educators including senior Australian English teachers, these resources have been professionally designed to create a high quality learning experience.  

Lesson structure

1. Encourage the students to discuss their persuasive responses with each other. 
2. Distribute another copy of the Techniques of persuasion worksheet. Ask the students to identify the techniques of persuasion used by their partner. 
3. Bring the class together, and ask each pair to share with the class the different techniques they used, writing them up on the board as you progress. Discuss which approaches were most effective, and why. 
4. Using the Lesson 6 Persuasive Writing PowerPoint slides, run through the Essay checklist worksheet with the students.  
5. Encourage them to discuss in pairs how well they feel their persuasive response checks off the items on the list.  
6. As a class, ask the students to reflect on:  
   • The concept of persuasive writing and their experiences with it. 
   • The arguments that were presented and why, including whether they were for/against their chosen statement, and how they reacted to the arguments made by other students.  
   • Which persuasive techniques they chose to use, why they chose them, where and how they used them, how well they worked, etc… 
   • Which examples from the fact sheets were used? What examples were most common? Why might this be the case? 
7. Give students time to redraft their writing, taking all of the feedback into consideration. 

This Australian Curriculum alignment statement is based on the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) materials, which are licensed under CC BY 4.0. The material has been modified from the Australian Curriculum website (accessed January 2020).

All activities have been created by educators for educators and are linked to the Australian Curriculum (Version 8.4). We advise teachers to consult the ACARA website for the most up-to-date curriculum outcomes.