Persuasive Writing - KS2 Text Types: Writing Planners and Model Text (Robot Teacher/Trampoline Park)

Teach children how to write a persuasive advert with this Key Stage 2 text types resource pack. The resources are based on two model texts advertising different products: a trampoline park and a robot teacher, showing WAGOLL (what a good one looks like). A planning sheet to support pupils to plan and write their own persuasive adverts is included.

This persuasive writing KS2 resource pack includes:

• Model text 1 - Visit the Trampoline park: a poster advertising a local trampoline park and the facilities available there.
• Model text 2 - The Must-have Robot Teacher!: a poster advertising a new robot teacher, persuading people to purchase it by listing its benefits.
• Persuasive advert writing sheet: a PDF containing success criteria that pupils can use to support their writing. Two versions are available: one for LKS2, with examples of present perfect tense and expanded noun phrases; and UKS2 with examples of modal verbs and the subjunctive form to show desires and wishes.
• Persuasive advert idea cards: a series of cards with mages of different places to visit and alternative robots that pupils could create their own adverts for.
• Persuasive advert writing plan: a worksheet to support pupils to plan and structure their writing. Two versions are available: one for LKS2 and one for UKS2.
• Writing frame: a PDF sheet that pupils could use to present their work.

What is persuasive writing?

Persuasive writing is encouraging the reader to do something or think in a particular way. There are many examples of persuasive texts, including adverts, reviews, tourist brochures, letters of application or protest and book blurbs.

National Curriculum English programme of study links:

Year 3/4

• Pupils should plan their writing by discussing writing that is similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.
• Pupils should be taught to use the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense.
• Pupils should be taught to use noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and prepositional phrases.

Year 5 /6

• Pupils should plan their writing by identifying the audience for and purpose for writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own.
• Pupils should be taught to use modal verbs ... to indicate degrees of possibility
• Pupils should be taught to recognise vocabulary and structures that are appropriate for formal speech and writing, including the subjunctive form.

This resource is part of the WAGOLL: text types writing packs collection.
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• Model text 1 - Visit the Trampoline park
• Model text 2 - The Must-have Robot Teacher!
• Persuasive advert writing sheet, LKS2
• Persuasive advert writing sheet, UKS2
• Persuasive advert idea cards
• Persuasive advert writing plan, LKS2
• Persuasive advert writing plan, UKS2
• Writing frame