Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify the structure and format of a letter that uses persuasive writing to argue a point of view about the importance of healthy eating, a worksheet for core and extension ability levels to use rules to identify and correct the spelling of different words with the letter string ie and a set of cards for support ability levels match and group words with the correct the spelling of the letter string ie in different words.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and match different words that follow a specific rule for spelling words with the letter string ie to use when writing a persuasive letter.

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.