CELEBRATING GOOD WRITERS!

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Sasha and Gus have both written expositions on their own at home.  They did a good job and you can listen to them here.  Just click on the mp3 file.  It would be great if you wrote a comment telling them something positive you liked about their work.  Well done, Sasha and Gus!   (I know Lily is working on hers, so you might hear them here soon….)

BOYS WIN THE DEBATE!

As an introduction to learning to write a persuasive argument (Exposition), students were fired up defending their point of view orally as to whether:

All Boys Should Learn to do Ballet!

Surprisingly 🙂 it became two teams made up of girls (YES!) and boys (NO!) and you will really enjoy listening to their animated and engaging arguments.

 

Go Girls – YES! All Boys Should Learn to do Ballet!

 

 

 

 

 

 Go Boys – NO! Every Boy Should Learn Ballet

 

Persuasive Argument or Exposition

This year’s writing for NAPLAN is an exposition or persuasive argument.  We have been learning how to write an exposition.  The things we need to do are: 1. Introduction where we state our position on the topic; 2. separate paragraphs giving a point of view plus an example or evidence to back it up (1 – 3; Firstly, Secondly, Finally); 3. A conclusion where we sum up our argument. (Therefore, In conclusion…).  We also have to remember to use strong words to convince our reader like: strongly agree, definitely, will, must, always…

Be careful parents – I’m sure you will find your child becoming more skillful at persuading you to allow them to do certain things… 🙂

Listen to this very convincing argument written as a YES to the statement: All Australians should learn to swim!

Great job, Sofia! 🙂  Sofia -exposition