Providing ready-made photocopiable activities plus teacher guidance, this title aims to help the teacher do shared and guided writing with whole class and groups. It covers persuasive writing and aims to improve teacher confidence and knowledge about shared and guided writing.

The activities in this title enable children to: identify characteristic features of persuasive writing; explore a variety of forms and purposes of persuasive writing; develop critical reading/writing skills, particularly in relation to identifying fact and opinion; experiment with manipulating reader response; put forward, argue and justify a point of view.