Navigating NAPLAN - Lesson Three - Structure and Arguments of Persuasive Writing

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. Explain that as they now have an increased understanding of persuasive writing techniques, they will be working on constructing a piece of persuasive writing themselves, with a focus on structure and arguments.  
2. Explain that they will be using the Dolphins in Captivity Fact Sheet for this task (distribute the fact sheet to all students). Ask students to read the fact sheet.  
3. Run through the ‘Lesson 3 Persuasive Writing’ PowerPoint slides.  
4. The slides enable students to review some sample persuasive writing responses, and discuss the ways that these texts are structured, how arguments are presented and language is used. 

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.