Pencils On Strike!
Students plan reasons on a main-idea organiser and use them in a persuasive apology letter intended to bring the pencils back from their strike. A draw-and-write response and eight vocabulary cards extend the writing task.
- Year levels
- Years 2–3
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Writing, English
- Topic
- Back to School, Persuasive Writing
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9E2LY06 — create
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Pencils on Strike is a persuasive-writing activity in which students write a letter to the pencils. Pencils are tired of being destroyed and they want better treatment!
Included
- A Main Idea and Key Detail organiser
- A persuasive apology letter to the pencils
- Writing sheet to show pencils how they will be used correctly
- Vocabulary Cards
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Learning objectives
Plan and write a persuasive apology letter to the striking pencils
Skills covered
Persuasive writing — students organise reasons and develop them in a letter
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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9E2LY06 — create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words
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