Year 5 Persuasive Writing Unit
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Teach the complete persuasive-writing process with a structured Year 5 unit that moves from audience and purpose to a finished persuasive draft. Students establish a position, build reasons, select evidence, use rhetorical questions, rule of three, repetition, emotive language and high modality, sequence paragraphs and refine their writing for impact.
The resource combines an editable 16-slide presentation and 22-slide quiz with a classroom display, three colourful activity/game resources, seven student worksheets, five matching answer pages, a two-page writing assessment and rubric. The unit-plan PDF has 20 A4 pages: one clean Table of Contents page followed by 19 printable teaching, practice, answer and assessment pages.
What's Included
Editable PowerPoint files
Persuasive Writing Year 5 Presentation — 16 slides
Persuasive Writing Year 5 Quiz — 22 slides, including 10 question-and-answer pairs
Printable unit-plan PDF — 20 A4 pages
Table of Contents
Classroom Display: Persuasive Writing Toolkit
Activity: Persuasive Device Sort Cards
Game: Modality Meter Challenge
Activity: Persuasion Prompt Cards
Worksheet: Audience and Purpose
Answer: Audience and Purpose
Worksheet: Rhetorical Questions and Rule of Three
Answer: Rhetorical Questions and Rule of Three
Worksheet: Evidence and Statistics Check
Answer: Evidence and Statistics Check
Worksheet: Sequencing a Persuasive Text
Answer: Sequencing a Persuasive Text
Worksheet: Strong Arguments Paragraph Builder
Answer: Strong Arguments Paragraph Builder
Worksheet: Persuasive Text Planner
Worksheet: Drafting a Persuasive Text
Assessment: Persuasive Writing Challenge
Assessment writing page: Persuasive Writing Challenge
Rubric: Persuasive Writing Year 5 Rubric
Learning Focus
Identifying audience, purpose and a clear position
Developing logical reasons, evidence and explanations
Using rhetorical questions, rule of three and repetition
Selecting emotive language and appropriate modality
Sequencing persuasive paragraphs coherently
Planning, drafting and reviewing a complete persuasive text
Classroom Use
Use the presentation for explicit teaching and mentor examples, then apply each concept through the device sort, modality game, prompt cards and focused worksheets. The planner and drafting page support an extended writing sequence, while the two-page challenge and rubric provide evidence for assessment and feedback.
Year, Subject and Topic
Year level: Year 5
Subject: English
Topic: Persuasive writing — audience, structure, evidence, language devices, planning and drafting
Curriculum Alignment
Australian Curriculum Version 9
AC9E5LA03, AC9E5LY03, AC9E5LY06
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4
ACELA1504, ACELA1797, ACELY1701, ACELY1704, ACELY1705, ACELY1707
Victorian Curriculum 2.0
VC2E5LA03, VC2E5LY08, VC2E5LY10, VC2E5LY11
NSW Syllabus
EN3-OLC-01, EN3-RECOM-01, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-CWT-01, EN3-SPELL-01, EN3-HANDW-01, EN3-HANDW-02
Western Australian Curriculum
WA5ELAT1, WA5ELYA1, WA5ELYC1, WA5ELYC4
Common Core State Standards
CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. RI.5.5, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.2.a, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.3.a, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. RF.5.4.a, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. RF.5.4.b, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. RI.5.10, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. RL.5.10, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. SL.5.2, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.6, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. RI.5.8, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. RL.5.5, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.1.b, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.1.c, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.1.d, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.2.b, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.2.c, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.2.d, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.2.e, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.9, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.9.b, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.10, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.3, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.3.b, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.5, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.1, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.2, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. L.5.1, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. L.5.2.a, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. L.5.2.e, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.3.d, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.3.e, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.7, CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. W.5.8
UK National Curriculum
UK-UKS2-ENG-R-C, UK-UKS2-ENG-W-C, UK-UKS2-ENG-R-WR, UK-UKS2-ENG-W-T-S, UK-UKS2-ENG-W-T-H, UK-UKS2-ENG-W-V, UK-UKS2-Y6-ENG-SPK
New Zealand Curriculum
NZ-Y5-ENG-OL-C-TFG-1, NZ-Y6-ENG-OL-C-TFG-1, NZ-Y5-ENG-OL-C-TSSF-1, NZ-Y6-ENG-OL-C-TSSF-1, NZ-Y5-ENG-W-C-APT-1, NZ-Y6-ENG-W-C-APT-1, NZ-Y5-ENG-W-WP-D-2, NZ-Y6-ENG-W-WP-D-2, NZ-Y5-ENG-W-C-DT-1, NZ-Y6-ENG-W-C-DT-1
TEKS
TEKS-ELAR-G5-2A, TEKS-ELAR-G5-9D, TEKS-ELAR-G5-9E, TEKS-ELAR-G5-9, TEKS-ELAR-G5-9F, TEKS-ELAR-G5-10B, TEKS-ELAR-G5-8A, TEKS-ELAR-G5-6, TEKS-ELAR-G5-6A, TEKS-ELAR-G5-6C, TEKS-ELAR-G5-6F, TEKS-ELAR-G5-6G, TEKS-ELAR-G5-6I, TEKS-ELAR-G5-7C, TEKS-ELAR-G5-9C, TEKS-ELAR-G5-10, TEKS-ELAR-G5-10A, TEKS-ELAR-G5-10C, TEKS-ELAR-G5-10G, TEKS-ELAR-G5-11B, TEKS-ELAR-G5-11C, TEKS-ELAR-G5-11D, TEKS-ELAR-G5-11E, TEKS-ELAR-G5-12, TEKS-ELAR-G5-12B, TEKS-ELAR-G5-12C, TEKS-ELAR-G5-13, TEKS-ELAR-G5-13A, TEKS-ELAR-G5-13C, TEKS-ELAR-G5-13D, TEKS-ELAR-G5-13F, TEKS-ELAR-G5-7F, TEKS-ELAR-G5-11, TEKS-ELAR-G5-11A, TEKS-ELAR-G5-12A, TEKS-ELAR-G5-12D, TEKS-ELAR-G5-13G, TEKS-ELAR-G5-13H
Ontario Curriculum
CAN-G5-LANG-C1.2, CAN-G5-LANG-C1.3, CAN-G5-LANG-D2.1, CAN-G5-LANG-C2.6, CAN-G5-LANG-C3.3, CAN-G5-LANG-D1.1, CAN-G5-LANG-D1.2, CAN-G5-LANG-D1.3, CAN-G5-LANG-D1.4, CAN-G5-LANG-D1.5, CAN-G5-LANG-D2.2, CAN-G5-LANG-D2.3, CAN-G5-LANG-D2.4, CAN-G5-LANG-D2.5, CAN-G5-LANG-D2.6, CAN-G5-LANG-D3.1, CAN-G5-LANG-D3.2, CAN-G5-LANG-D3.3, CAN-G5-LANG-B3.3, CAN-G5-LANG-C1.4, CAN-G5-LANG-C3.8
Formats, Page Count and Answers
Unit-plan PDF: 20 A4 pages
Editable presentation: 16 PPTX slides
Editable quiz: 22 PPTX slides
Combined listing preview: 58 pages (20 + 16 + 22)
Clean Table of Contents image: 2480 × 3509 JPEG at 300 dpi
Answer Key Status
Matching printable answer pages are included for Audience and Purpose, Rhetorical Questions and Rule of Three, Evidence and Statistics Check, Sequencing a Persuasive Text, and Strong Arguments Paragraph Builder. Persuasive Text Planner, Drafting a Persuasive Text and the assessment have no separate answer pages. The quiz includes its matching answer slides.
Teacher Benefits
A structured sequence from persuasive-device analysis to an extended writing task
Editable presentation and quiz files
Seven focused worksheets and five matching answer pages
Colour activities for sorting, discussion and language practice
Two-page assessment and rubric for evidence gathering and feedback
Australian English and mapped curriculum references
Digital Product and Licence
This is a digital product supplied as PDF and editable PowerPoint files. No physical item will be shipped.
Licence and Terms
Purchase grants one purchaser a single-user classroom licence. The files may be printed and used with the purchaser's own students. They may not be shared, posted online, resold, redistributed or used to create commercial derivative products.
