Resources for the Persuasive Genre
Books
SOURCE
NT Department of Education
ASCM Project
NT Department of Education
ICCAS Project
TITLE
 Getting Going with Genres: Argument and Discussion
Genre booklets
 Learning English in Aboriginal Schools Resource Package
 Argument and Persuasion Genres for Aboriginal Students
 Advertising a Sports Day: Stage 4 English Book 16
 Arguing for a Bike Track: Stage 5 English Book 12
 Tourism: Stage 5 English Book 11
 Recycling and A Cleaner World: Upper Primary English
STEPS Project
 First Steps: Writing Map of Development
 First Steps: Writing Resource Book
 First Steps: Speaking & Listening Maps of Development
 First Steps: Speaking & Listening Resource Book
Peter Knapp and Megan
Watkins (UNSW Press)
 Genre, Text, Grammar Technologies for Teaching and
Assessing Writing
Joelie Hancock and Christine
Leaver (ALEA)
 Teaching Strategies for Literacy
Lesley Wing Jan (Oxford Press)
 Write Ways: Modelling Writing Forms
Elizabeth Love and Sue Reilly
 Time for Talking – speaking and listening activities for
lower primary students
Marcelle Holliday
 Strategies for Writing Success
Blake Education
 Targeting Text Middle Primary Book 2 Recount,
Procedure, Exposition
 Targeting Text Upper Primary Book 2 Recount, Procedure
and Exposition
WA Department of Education
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Websites
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Description
URL
English K-6 Modules (NSW Board of
Studies) contains teaching ideas,
units of work and deconstructed
texts for the exposition genre
http://k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/files/english/k6engmodules_syl.pdf
Writing Fun is a colourful interactive
writing site with information about
structure, grammar and samples of
student work.
http://www.writingfun.com/
The Learning Federation has a
range of learning objects that
support the teaching and learning of
writing.
http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au
The Writing Site describes the
persuasive/argument genre, lists
resources and includes links to other
sites.
http://www.thewritingsite.org/resources/genre/persuasive.asp
The Learning Place deconstructs
the persuasive genre with a focus
on speaking and includes an
interactive Persuasion Map.
http://www.learningplace.com.au/deliver/content.asp?pid=36855
Writing Workshop gives students
hints and ideas then takes them
through the process of preparing,
writing and editing a piece of
persuasive writing.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/writing/minilessons.asp?topic=Persuasive
Yorba Middle School site has a
breakdown, with hints and tips, of
persuasive writing for the older
student.
http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/persuasive_writing.htm
The SA site links to a unit of work for
a 6/7 class with individual lessons
on teaching the Argument Genre
and includes ESL considerations.
http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/curric/files/links/Argument_genre.doc
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