Persuasion resources

For this NEMP task students fill out an application form for an after school job.

This task assesses a student's ability to persuade an audience to agree with their opinion. Some speech topics and a checklist are provided.

Students use a given example of a blurb about a book to create their own blurb for a book of their choice.

Students write an invitation to a party.

Student read an extract from a speech that contains examples of a rhetorical question, exaggeration, understatement, allusion, and contrast. Using the examples from the speech to help them, students write a definition of each language feature..

Students read an advertisement then identify and explain some of its language features.

After reading the article, 'Flax Flyers', students classify statements from the article as persuasive or factual. SJ-1-4-1997. Text provided.

Students write an advertisement to sell a kayak on a website.

For this NEMP task students look at a picture of a bicycle and write an advertisement to sell the bike in a newspaper column.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to evaluate the ideas and information in a text about an environmental issue. Students are asked to read a text, then respond to four questions. SJ-4-3-2005. Text provided.

Students read the letters written by four different people and identify the main idea of each letter.

Students attempt to persuade the adults in their families that they should be able to have a dog. They construct an argument by writing replies to the adults' statements.

Students read a text on shoplifting to answer retrieval and inferential questions.