Letter Three – For and Against

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to make a list of arguments for and against a particular issue such as bringing mobile phones and scooters to school to use when composing a discussion text.
The class can explain how to record viewpoints in a discursive writing text using special words to link paragraphs on the same theme.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to make a list of arguments for and against a particular issue such as bringing mobile phones and scooters to school to use when composing a discussion text
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 bringing mobile phones into schools and a worksheet to make a list of arguments for and against the viewpoint of bringing scooters into the school.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to make a list of arguments for and against a particular issue such as bringing mobile phones and scooters to school.
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.
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