Lesson Two – Newspaper Letter
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise composing a letter to a newspaper using persuasive language to get the reader to support a viewpoint about the building of a new skate park in the local area.
The class can explain how to correctly format and structure a letter that argues a point of view using matching vocabulary phrases and sentence structures.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise composing a letter to a newspaper using persuasive language to get the reader to support a viewpoint about the building of a new skate park in the local area
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 opening of a new takeaway and a template to plan a letter to a newspaper using persuasive language to get the reader to support a viewpoint about an issue in the local area.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a letter to a newspaper using persuasive language to get the reader to support a viewpoint about the building of a new skate park.
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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