Reading

CURRICULUM FOCUS

We are learning to identify persuasive writing techniques and analyse their effectiveness.

VOCABULARY

Persuasive writing techniques:  

Alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Facts: a thing that is known or proved to be true.

Opinion: a view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

Rhetorical question: a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

Emotive language: Emotive language refers to specific word choices that are made in order to elicit an emotional response from the reader/listener

Statistics: a fact or piece of data obtained from a study of a large quantity of numerical data.

Triplets (rule of three): three descriptive words in a row to create a deeper image for the reader to visualise

ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO AT HOME TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING

When reading texts students should look for and identify writing crafts:

Alliteration

Facts

Opinion

Rhetorical question 

Emotive language

Statistics

Triplets (rule of three)

Students list the examples of what they find in their homework books.