WRITING CONFERENCE – Persuasive Text Student Name

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AUTHORIAL
CRAFT SECRETARIAL

Selecting Purpose and Genre Text Layout

• Select topics that are • Paragraphing – The segmenting of

interesting and substantive text into paragraphs that assist
the reader to negotiate the text
Organisation
• Paragraphs focused on one idea or
• Use the structure of persuasive set of like ideas and enhance the
text with facts and information text
ordered in a logical way
Grammar
• Support ideas with facts,
details, examples and explanations The production of grammatically
from multiple sources correct, structurally sound and
meaningful sentences
Idea Development

• Clearly communicate main

• Use a range of sentence types
(declarative, interrogative,
points
imperative, exclamatory),
structures and lengths
• Provide details that are
accurate, relevant, interesting, and
• Use nouns, verbs, pronouns,
vivid
adjectives, adverbs and
prepositions in agreement and in
Language Use
conventional order within
sentences
• Use language to elicit feelings
Punctuation
• Use language to establish a
point of view The use of correct and appropriate
punctuation to aid the reading of the
• Use examples to make things text
clear
Spelling
Word Choice
• Spell common words
• Use memorable, vivid and
precise words and phrases • Difficult / Challenging words

Rehearsing / Planning

• Write with a specific audience in

mind

Drafting / Revising

• Reread and revise to clarify

• Add words, phrases, sentences,

and paragraphs to better persuade

Editing / Proofreading

• Understand the purpose of the

process

• Edit for spelling, grammar and

punctuation

With reference to: © 2007 by Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C Fountas from The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K-
8 Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann