Learning Experiences

This week in Literacy

Our writing session focused on the structure of a persuasive text.  The areas discussed was the opening paragraph, topic sentences, elaborating on arguments and the concluding paragraph.   The function of the opening paragraph is to provide background information about the issue or problem and to also state the writer’s position on the issue. Topic sentences are used to introduce a paragraph.

Writers elaborate on arguments by providing the reader with examples, reasons and facts. The

concluding paragraph is used to restate the writer's position and to summarise the arguments.  It can also be used to offer possible solution to the issue or problem.

Our reading session also focused on the features of a persuasive text.  After reviewing an example text the students were given a text to analyse.  Their task was to identify the purpose of each paragraph, the main ideas and supporting arguments, the title and predict some of the key words which were missing from the text.  

Please discuss these ideas with your child.

The 5/6 Team