NAPLAN LITERACY SKILLS Best & Worst: Guided Persuasive Writing Activities, Year 5

These engaging writing activities will introduce and develop essential persuasive writing skills!



This workbook contains 50 guided 2-page exercises where students decide on the best and worst features of a person, place, event, activity, or situation.



Each activity asks students to list three positive and three negative aspects of the given topic. Students then choose the best and the worst aspect and write a short paragraph explaining the choice.



Each topic also includes a full-length writing task where students use the three good points or the three bad points as supporting ideas for a complete opinion piece.



Key Benefits

- Introduces and develops strong persuasive writing skills

- Simple, straightforward, and engaging activities give students ongoing practice

- Students have extensive practice brainstorming and listing reasons and supporting ideas

- Encourages students to produce well-organised full-length opinion pieces

- Includes full-length writing tasks for opinion pieces, essays, letters, articles, and flyers

- Format allows activities to be used for homework, independent practice, group work, and class discussions

- Encourages critical thinking by having students think of pros and cons for a wide range of topics

- Gives students the skills needed to perform well on NAPLAN persuasive writing tasks


Develops Key Persuasive Writing Skills

- Forming and clearly stating an opinion

- Brainstorming reasons and selecting the strongest reasons

- Supporting a point of view with reasons

- Using details and examples to support ideas

- Staying focused on a topic

- Structuring opinion pieces based on supporting ideas

- Considering both pros and cons