Persuasive Writing Teaching Resources

This collection of opinion and argumentative writing resources provides you with everything you need to teach the purpose, structure, and language features of opinion or argumentative texts. Within this collection is a large selection of posters to visually display the features of opinion texts and vocabulary word walls that provide examples of sentence starters and high modality language. There is also a large number of worksheets, units and lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, graphic organizers and much more! These resources will help to encourage your students to effectively persuade their audience through the correct use of persuasive language and persuasive devices. Also provided are resources to assist your students when learning about persuasive speeches and opinion letters.

What Are Persuasive Devices?

Persuasive devices are language techniques that writers can use to sway the reader to a particular point of view. Using them strategically and appropriately throughout their writing is a powerful skill to teach our students!

Persuasive devices can be used by a writer to:

• Create a bond between the author and the reader or listener
• Reinforce and emphasize the author’s viewpoint
• Appeal to the emotions of the reader or listener
• Make the author seem knowledgeable, reliable and correct
• Make other views seem foolish, dangerous and wrong