Can We Persuade You To Eat Your Sprouts?!

Sharon Wallace, Effective Teaching and Learning Teacher, Curriculum Support Team has been trialling some of the new Active Literacy materials for P6/7 with Head of Muir Primary School.

Sharon has been working with 33 P7s on the persuasive writing genre. The learning intention was to develop the pupils ability to give an opinion through a piece of writing. Using the success criteria, pupils looked at persuasive language, synonyms for ‘persuade’ before embarking on an opening paragraph.

Pupils watched this shared ‘text’ to gather evidence of persuasive language and techniques and really enjoyed this activity. Eat Your Sprouts!

Pupils in this class will persuade you, through their writing, that ‘There’s always time for a sprout!’ and they invented new characters to convince readers of the benefits of sprouts.

Here are some of their characters they designed to persuade younger audiences to eat their sprouts:

Working in writing trios, pupils worked hard  incorporating the success criteria of: changing the mind of the reader, using powerful verbs and strong adjectives and setting out main points in a paragraph.

Here are a few examples of their opening paragraphs:

‘Do you eat brussel sprouts? No? Well, you should! Eating brussel sprouts will provide you with many benefits such as making you live longer, run faster than Usain Bolt, jump higher than Captain America and be smarter than Steven Hawkin. You will increase in height and muscles galore, these are just a few of the benefits, so rush out to the shops and buy some now!’

‘Brussels Give You Muscles’

‘Why should we eat these scrumptious brussels? Well, for a start, I am going to convince you that they are God’s greatest creation yet! Can I coax you to understand that if you eat sprouts every day and night, you will become marvellously wealthy, even wealthier than Robbie Williams!’

‘Your dreams will come true with brussel sprouts! How will eating brussel sprouts make your dreams come true I hear you asking!? Well, can I coax you to understand that sprouts of the God of vegetables? I bet you will have them on your plate every night. You might even be caught washing with brussel sprout soap! Messi eats them everyday – that is why he is the best footballer in the world!’

Have they managed to persuade you yet?

 

6 comments

  1. says:

    Count me in! I have definitely been persuaded that sprouts may be better for me than I think. Sprouts aren’t just for Christmas!
    Well done Primary 7. Brilliant writing! Thank you Mrs. Wallace and Miss Thomson!

  2. says:

    Count me in! I have definitely been persuaded that sprouts may be better for me than I think. Sprouts aren’t just for Christmas!
    Well done Primary 7. Brilliant writing! Thank you Mrs. Wallace and Miss Thomson!

  3. says:

    Great work P7! I will confess that I am not a fan of Brussel Sprouts but will definitely give them another try after such great arguments! 🙂

  4. says:

    A sprout with clout!!! Great persuasive writing. Now if we link that to maths and ICT, we could survey how many pupils we have encouraged to eat sprouts.

  5. says:

    These aren’t just ordinary pieces of writing, these are Active Literacy pieces of writing!

    Well done P7, I am super impressed 🙂 Thank you for your hard work and enthusiasm – you did a super job of fulfilling your success criteria.

    Great job.

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