Years 3–6: Make It! Persuasive Literacy Challenge Cards
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Make It! Literacy Challenges | Persuasive Edition | Years 3–6
Want your students to write persuasively for a real reason, not just another “should kids have homework?” essay?
Make It! Literacy Challenges: Persuasive Edition is a set of 10 hands-on persuasive writing challenges for Years 3–6. Each card is a complete writing task. Students read a short text, follow five clear steps and finish with something they’ve made themselves. Each challenge practises one part of persuasive writing, such as audience, position, evidence or modality. They fit easily into a persuasive writing unit, a fast finisher routine or a literacy rotation, and each one takes a single lesson.
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Students write to the principal asking for a longer lunch, and design an ad for the Sock Finder 3000. They make a campaign poster to stop the local park from becoming a car park, and a badge and speech for class captain. Other cards have them argue in court in the trial of Goldilocks, write a brochure for Wonder Island, argue both sides of whether kids should have phones at school, and write an opinion column for the front page.
What’s Included?
- 10 printable Make It! challenge cards
- Google Slides with one slide per card, ready to display
- Teacher guide with tips on getting ready and using the cards
- Skills overview showing the focus and end product for every card
- NSW and Australian Curriculum links
- An Expert Challenge on every card to extend early finishers
The 10 Challenges
- Dear Principal: a formal letter asking for a new school rule
- Sell It!: an advertisement for an invented gadget
- Save Our Spot: a campaign poster to save a local park
- Vote for Me: a campaign badge and speech
- Best Class Pet: a pitch card arguing for one class pet
- Five-Star Review: a star-rated review of a book, film or lunch
- Visit Wonder Island: a three-panel travel brochure
- The Trial of Goldilocks: a closing argument with evidence tags
- Change My Mind: a flip card that argues both sides
- Hold the Front Page: a newspaper opinion column
Why Make It! Literacy Challenges?
- Students write every day with a clear purpose and a real audience
- Each card has five numbered steps, so students can work on their own
- Every challenge practises a specific persuasive skill using syllabus terminology
- Speech and debate cards build oral language alongside writing
- Students only need paper, pencils, colours and scissors
- Works for whole-class lessons, small groups, fast finishers or relief days
Looking for more? Pair with Make It! Literacy Challenges: Narrative Edition for a full term of hands-on writing.
Resource Details
- Text Type: Persuasive
- Focus: Audience, position, arguments, evidence, modality, persuasive devices
- Stage: Stage 2 and Stage 3 (Years 3–6)
- Length: 10 challenge cards plus matching Google Slides
- Time: One lesson per challenge
- Curriculum: NSW English K–10 (CWT-03, CWT-01, VOCAB-01, OLC-01, UARL-01) and Australian Curriculum v9
Read it. Write it. Make it!
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Yes. Every Hello Primary resource is written by an Australian primary teacher and aligned to the NSW English K–10 Syllabus and the Australian Curriculum v9.0. The curriculum links for this resource are included in the download.
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