Lesson Four – Commercial Drafting

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to draft and edit the text for a radio commercial that can be used to sell a food snack using persuasive language that is based on a traditional tale.

The class can practise using a checklist to correct and edit their commercials to make them more persuasive and compel someone to perform a specific action.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to draft and edit the text for a radio commercial that can be used to sell a food snack using persuasive language that is based on a traditional tale

Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to practise using a checklist to correct and edit the structure and format of their radio commercials to make them more persuasive when trying to advertise a specific type of food snack based on a traditional story.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to draft and edit the text for a radio commercial that can be used to sell a food snack using persuasive language.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to produce radio commercials and posters using persuasive language based on traditional stories, explore words with sion endings and use the conjunctions because and although to extend sentences. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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