Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format discursive writing to present arguments and viewpoints about an issue and templates to select and record the viewpoint of a group about whether pupils in a school learn best using either books or laptops.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the viewpoints of different groups about whether pupils in a school learn best when working with either books or laptops.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to compose a range of discussion texts to debate and present arguments about issues that are important to life in a school. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.