UNIT 3 Lesson 1 – What is a Persuasive Argument

Students engage with a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts that provide a stimulus for constructing persuasive responses.

These texts may include picture or chapter books and informative texts. Students read, view and comprehend texts with content of increasing complexity and technicality that extends students as independent readers.

Through texts, students explore how texts are created, using different language features and structures depending on their purpose and audience. Students engage in shared and independent writing and/or learning experiences to create persuasive responses for a particular purpose and audience.

They use language of evaluation and emotion such as modal verbs, words, phrases and images, and text structures including the stages of a basic argument, to persuade.

Students use interaction skills to contribute to discussions and share ideas for an audience using a clear structure, details to elaborate ideas, and topic-specific and precise vocabulary