This Curriculum into the Classroom unit of work developed by the Queensland government is a comprehensive resource in which students read, view and listen to advertisement in print and digital media. They explore how language and text features come together to persuasive effect. It includes unit plan, individual lesson plans and a video to help teachers, an assessment task and guide. The resource was discovered through Scootle and you may be asked to login for access. Sign up to Scootle is free and can be done here.
This Perfect Pets interactive resource walks students through the process of building a pet store web page. It explores different features and aspects of the webpage and how this work to persuade customers of the advantages of different animals as pets. TAKE NOTE: This resource does require Flash to run but it is a fun interactive task for students.
ReadWriteThink is an excellent source of literacy resources. This unit of work Persuade me in Five Slides! Creating Persuasive Digital Stories involves 4, 50 minute learning sessions. This lesson sequence provides an excellent opportunity to ICT 21st century learning and ICT skills as well as higher level Bloom's taxonomy skills into your persuasive lesson planning. Try searching ReadWriteThink for more persuasive text resources.
Scootle is a national repository that provides Australian schools with more than 20,000 digitial resources aligned to the curriculum. You must sign up to use this resource but access is free. Use the search terms 'persuasive' or 'persuasion' and then use the filters to search by Year Group and resource type to find many resources to support the teaching of persuasive writing.
