Year 1 Persuasive Texts Unit | Worksheets, Games & Assessment

This Year 1 Persuasive Texts unit helps students learn how opinions, reasons and audience work together in simple persuasive writing. Students identify opinions, give clear reasons, consider who they are persuading, practise persuasive sentence starters, plan a short persuasive text and complete a simple assessment task.

This ready-to-teach English resource supports lessons focused on opinion writing, persuasive language, oral discussion, audience, reasons, planning and composing short persuasive texts.

What's Included

• A 17-page unit plan PDF
• An editable 14-slide PowerPoint presentation
• An editable 10-question PowerPoint quiz with 22 slides
• A colour Bright Ideas Need Reasons classroom display
• Two colour games and activities: Opinion Path and For or Against Sort
• Five black-and-white student worksheets
• The Convince the Principal assessment task
• Worksheet answer pages and an assessment answer page
• An A4 landscape five-level marking rubric

Learning Focus

• Identify opinions and supporting reasons
• Consider audience and purpose
• Use persuasive sentence starters
• Plan and compose short persuasive texts
• Share and discuss persuasive ideas

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for explicit instruction, the display for classroom reference, the games and activities for partner or centre practice, the worksheets for consolidation, and the assessment and rubric to collect evidence of student learning.

Files are supplied as PDF and editable PowerPoint formats. Answers are included where meaningful. This is a digital resource licensed for single-classroom use; no physical product will be shipped.