Persuasive writing worksheet

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Teachit Author
Persuasive writing worksheet
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
Writing for purpose and audience: Arguments and persuasive texts
Resource type
Complete lesson
Worksheet

This helpful resource is a series of persuasive language thinking, discussion and writing activities that support students in KS3 or KS4 to develop their persuasive writing skills.

Students can work through each of the tasks in order to improve their writing process and build confidence in their ability to utilise persuasive techniques effectively.

There is a series of accessible tasks and teaching resources focusing on different persuasive techniques, such as alliteration and exaggeration.

The activities prompt students to imagine real-life scenarios using each of six methods. Once they have completed these, there is a writing task to help learners develop their persuasive writing techniques independently through writing from a point of view.

This is an ideal resource for introducing persuasive writing, revisiting it with students for revision purposes or to boost their understanding of persuasive language use.

Browse additional resources in the persuasive writing section. 

A sample extract from the resource:

Persuasive writing uses facts and figures to force you to believe something is true.  Nine out of ten owners said their cats preferred it, kills 90% of all known germs.  Facts and figures give you evidence that something is true. 

1. Use a fact, figure or statistic to write a sentence that might persuade your parents to buy you a gift of your choosing.

2. Write a sentence that might persuade your parents to buy you a bar of chocolate at the supermarket checkout.

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19/03/2021

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11/05/2020

Sorry to be a bit critical here but Persuasive writing is so *not* like SHOUTING at someone (see your first line). If anything, shouting (at!) has the opposite effect. Persuasive is about convincing - I think this has to be understood before putting pen to paper.

Cally Britten

06/05/2020

Great

Iwona Wawer-La Verde

30/01/2020

5

19/03/2021

5

11/05/2020

Sorry to be a bit critical here but Persuasive writing is so *not* like SHOUTING at someone (see your first line). If anything, shouting (at!) has the opposite effect. Persuasive is about convincing - I think this has to be understood before putting pen to paper.

Cally Britten

06/05/2020

Great

Iwona Wawer-La Verde

30/01/2020

do you have an answer key for this?

giselle lorde

27/08/2019

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15/03/2019

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