Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify the structure and format of a discursive writing text that presents viewpoints for and against watching television and a worksheet to plan and write a discussion text outlining arguments for and against a specific issue.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a discussion text outlining arguments for and against schools setting homework for pupils.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise using persuasive and discursive language to discuss and argue points of view in letters and magazine articles, identify and use rules to learn new spellings and practise using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis in sentences. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.