Year 5 Writing Unit: Balanced Argument on Going Paperless
This four-lesson writing unit is designed to help Year 5 pupils build a persuasive and balanced argument on whether schools should go paperless. Using a highly scaffolded approach, students will develop their sentence structure, persuasive techniques, and argument writing skills, ensuring they can craft a well-reasoned debate.
What’s Included?
Lesson 1: Understanding Key Arguments – Pupils explore three arguments for and against going paperless, using Point, Example, Explanation structure.
Lesson 2: Persuasive Phrases & Sentence Structuring – Pupils practice using persuasive phrases, fronted adverbials, and key transitions to strengthen their writing.
Lesson 3: Using a Range of Sentence Types – Focus on statements, exclamations, questions, and commands to vary sentence structure and impact.
Lesson 4: Applying Features in a Balanced Argument – Pupils draft a structured paragraph using all previously learned techniques.
This unit incorporates modelled writing, sentence scaffolding, and progressive application, making it ideal for whole-class instruction, guided writing, or independent tasks.
Download now to help your pupils master persuasive and balanced argument writing in an engaging and structured way!
Get this resource as part of a bundle and save up to 33%
A bundle is a package of resources grouped together to teach a particular topic, or a series of lessons, in one place.
Something went wrong, please try again later.
This resource hasn't been reviewed yet
To ensure quality for our reviews, only customers who have purchased this resource can review it
to let us know if it violates our terms and conditions.
Our customer service team will review your report and will be in touch.
£1.00