In year 5/6 we have been learning about writing different persuasive pieces. We learnt about persuasive techniques such as exaggeration (hyperbole), rhetorical questions, groups of three and alliteration. We organise our ideas into paragraphs and as we are getting used to using the different techniques we have learnt to compose our persuasive pieces in a smaller time frame. We also did a post assessment and wrote a full persuasive piece. 

Some of the different topics we wrote about included why foods that are high in sugar should be banned. We learnt a variety of different sentence starters such as ‘the fact is ……’, ‘it’s easy to see why’, ‘this will cause….’ , ‘the time has come to …..’, ‘you must know …….’ , ‘did you know …..’ , ‘can’t you see …… ‘ and much MUCH MORE!

Not long after we finished our topic of persuasive texts we learnt about author’s purpose. The three of the author’s purpose are persuade, inform and entertain.

Here are a couple of samples of our persuasive writing …..