As a group, we decided that an opinion is:
- Your own thoughts and ideas
- Your point of view
- Your preference
Opinions are all about YOU!
We then talked about facts. We decided that facts provide:
- Real information
- Proven Points
- Information supported by others
Facts help to change the readers mind.
The purpose of persuasive writing is to change the audience (readers) thinking.
There is a place for both facts and opinions in persuasive writing.
To help us understand the difference between facts and information, we looked at a selection of online examples of persuasive writing. As we read each example we looked for evidence of facts and opinions, circled them and ticked them off on the whiteboard. You can see from this that facts are really important in Persuasive writing. This is the reason why we started with report writing this term. To write a great piece of persuasive writing - you need to know your stuff! Our Opinions must be backed up with Reasons and Examples. We also need to keep thinking about the Purpose of our piece of writing, and who the Audience is.
At the end of each piece we voted on the topic, and then got quite involved in looking at the statistics! The students were particularly interested in the differences between the way the boys and the girls voted, and how younger students, and Grade 5 students voted. It was fascinating to see the differences in the data.
Here are links to the persuasive writing examples we looked at (there are hundreds more on the website that you can read at home!)
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