Planning questions
- Why might swimming be an important skill in Australia?
- Who should provide and pay for the lessons?
- What might make lessons for every child difficult to offer?
PersuasiveYears 3–9
Swimming Lessons for Everyone?
Swimming can be a sport, a hobby and an important safety skill. Should swimming lessons be available to every child? Write to persuade a reader of your view.
Make your position clear and support it with reasons and examples.
PersuasiveYears 3–9
Swimming Lessons for Everyone?
Swimming can be a sport, a hobby and an important safety skill. Should swimming lessons be available to every child? Write to persuade a reader of your view.
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
Let the setting drive a story, or argue for a practical safety skill.
Support: Talk about places people swim in your area and what a swimmer needs to know there.
Extend: Explain the difference between lessons being available to all and compulsory for all, and argue for one.
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 Writing Boost classroom resource for Years 3–9. 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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