Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to check and make corrections and improvements to the structure and content of a discursive writing text outlining the arguments that are for or against the installation of a wind turbine in the school grounds to publish in a magazine.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to draft and edit a discursive writing text outlining the arguments for or against the installation of a wind turbine in the school grounds.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to plan and write a magazine article about an environmental issue, learn rules to spell words with cial and tial endings and use commas to separate phrases and clauses in a sentence. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.