Planning questions
- How do food choices affect health, energy and learning?
- Would a ban help students, or should students have the freedom to choose?
- What reasons and examples will make your position convincing?
PersuasiveYears 3–9
Ban Junk Food?
Write to persuade a reader whether junk food should be banned from school canteens.
Make your position clear and support it with reasons and examples.
PersuasiveYears 3–9
Ban Junk Food?
Write to persuade a reader whether junk food should be banned from school canteens.
Make your position clear and support it with reasons and examples.
Planning and teaching notes
Writer’s checklist
- Make your position clear in the introduction.
- Organise your reasons into paragraphs.
- Explain each reason with a relevant example.
- Choose words carefully to convince your reader.
- Finish with a conclusion, then reread and edit.
Teaching notes
Ask students what their own canteen sells. Sort their ideas into health, learning and choice, then have each student pick a side before they plan.
Support: Choose your two strongest reasons and give each one an example from a real school day.
Extend: Answer the freedom-to-choose argument in its own paragraph, then explain why your position still holds.
Choose one skill from your current teaching. Model it and practise it together before students write, then check it again in a later task.
How to teach persuasive writingOriginal NAPLAN-style practice for Years 3–9. Not an official ACARA prompt. Print and share with your class.
Feedback on the argument they write
Writing Boost marks students’ writing and gives each writer feedback for their next draft.
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Typed or handwritten
Bring typed work into Writing Boost, or review a transcript of a handwritten piece before sending it for feedback.
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Feedback on each criterion
Students see what is working and where to focus next, with a specific change to try in their draft. From “improve your vocabulary” to a next step a writer can act on.
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Revise and compare drafts
Feedback stays close while students revise. Compare versions to see what changed and talk about why. Students make the changes. The writing stays theirs. See a writing example
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See the whole class
See criterion results across your class, spot shared needs and strengths, and open the student work behind them.
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