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Year 5

'Front Desk': persuasive letter writing

12 lessons

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  • Modern literature strand 1: identity, belonging and community
  • Reading and writing texts that inform

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In this unit, pupils take inspiration from a scene in the text 'Front Desk' to write a persuasive letter to elected councillors. They build up persuasive writing skills, including flattery, presumption, evidence and veiled threat. Pupils apply a variety of conventions of formal letter writing.

This unit uses and builds on pupils' analysis of a novel from the Year 5 unit 'Front Desk': book club' and their understanding of persuasive letter writing conventions from the Year 5 unit 'School uniform: persuasive letter writing'. Here, pupils combine the two units to take inspiration from a scene in the novel to write a persuasive letter to elected councillors. This requires them to use a formal tone, a wide range of persuasive techniques, cohesive devices and clear structuring. This unit prepares pupils for the Year 6 unit ''Sherlock Holmes': descriptive and letter writing'.

  1. Understanding the context of 'Front Desk'
  2. Understanding the purpose, layout and features of a persuasive letter
  3. Identifying linguistic features and persuasive techniques
  4. Planning the introduction of a persuasive letter, using inspiration from a text
  5. Writing the introduction of a persuasive letter, using inspiration from a text
  6. Planning part one of the main body of a persuasive letter
  7. Writing part one of the main body of a persuasive letter, inspired by a text
  8. Planning part two of the main body of a persuasive letter
  9. Writing part two of the main body of a persuasive letter, inspired by a text
  10. Editing the main body of a persuasive letter, inspired by a text
  11. Planning and writing the conclusion of a persuasive letter, inspired by a text
  12. Reading aloud a persuasive letter, inspired by a text
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