NAPLAN LITERACY SKILLS Best and Worst: Daily Persuasive Writing Activities Year 5

The workbook contains 50 guided 2-page exercises where students decide on the best and worst features of a person, place, event, activity, or situation.

Each activity asks students to list three positive and three negative aspects of the given topic. Students then choose the best and the worst aspect and write a short paragraph explaining the choice.

Each topic also includes a full-length writing task where students use the three good points or the three bad points as supporting ideas for a complete opinion piece.

The simple and straightforward format allows students to have ongoing practice writing persuasive texts in a way that is entertaining and enjoyable.

Key Benefits
- Introduces and develops strong persuasive writing skills
- Simple, straightforward, and engaging activities give students ongoing practice
- Students have extensive practice brainstorming and listing reasons and supporting ideas
- Encourages students to produce well-organised full-length opinion pieces
- Includes full-length writing tasks for opinion pieces, essays, letters, articles, and flyers
- Encourages critical thinking by having students think of pros and cons for a wide range of topics
- Gives students the skills needed to perform well on NAPLAN persuasive writing tasks

Develops Key Persuasive Writing Skills
- Forming and clearly stating an opinion
- Brainstorming reasons and selecting the strongest reasons
- Supporting a point of view with reasons
- Using details and examples to support ideas
- Staying focused on a topic
- Structuring opinion pieces based on supporting ideas
- Considering both pros and cons