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Persuasive Writing Prompts
Develop your students’ persuasive writing and create master debaters.
How to use these writing promptsThese writing prompts follow the Seven Steps methodology of breaking down writing into Seven simple Steps and are a great way to get students’ creative juices flowing. Use them daily or weekly to build students’ confidence in their persuasive writing and as a fun way to practise one Step at a time. By focusing on specific skills of writing, students rapidly practise and develop each skill, ultimately building on each one to write powerful whole texts. |
Pick a Step
Step 1: Planning for Success
Animal Magic
If you could be any animal, what would you be and why?
Brainstorm up to 10 ideas on the topic.
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Step 1: Planning for Success
Emotions
Is it better to feel emotions or not to have emotions at all?
Brainstorm five arguments for each side.
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Step 2: Sizzling Starts
Mobile Kids
How old should kids be before getting their own phone?
Write a Sizzling Start to an opinion piece, using action or dialogue.
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Step 3: Tightening Tension
Practical Skills
Everyone should learn practical skills.
Write a crescendo scene for your strongest argument.
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Step 4: Dynamic Dialogue
Group Work
Would you rather work in a group or on your own?
Gather at least three quotations and select the best to support your argument.
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Step 5: Show, Don't Tell
Cats
Can a cat be your friend? Or are cats just using us?
Paint a word picture that shows the reader how you feel about cats.
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Step 5: Show, Don't Tell
Everyone Cook
Everyone should learn to cook.
Show whether this is true or false by using a story about one person to represent many.
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Step 6: Ban the Boring
Trim It
Choose a persuasive text and trim it back by a third.
Can you keep the key message and the main points of the argument?
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Step 7: Ending with Impact
Care for Nature
People who don’t care about the environment are selfish.
Write the ending to an essay using a call to action or a question.
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Related resources
- Narrative Writing Prompts
- Informative Writing Prompts
- How to teach persuasive writing
- Persuasive writing samples
- Persuasive lesson plans and activities
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Writing samples and exemplars
Discover the difference Seven Steps can make with these student writing samples. We also have ‘real world’ exemplars – discover how professional authors use the Seven Steps in narrative texts.
Lesson plans and activities
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