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Persuasive writing and Greenpeace

7/10/2018

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People love to send me films and I have been sent this one quite a few times over the last few weeks. 
'Rang Tan' is an educational film made by Greenpeace to educate people about the destruction of the rainforests due to human intrusion, primarily from the Palm Oil manufacturers. 

These resources are adapted from the great resources that were developed by Greenpeace on the subject.  The originals can be found here 
When using this film with a group of Y4 children this week to tie into their Rainforests topic we began by finding out lots about Orangutans. 

We began by watching this short film from YouTube. 
The children then created information sheets about Orangutans using the templates below.  The objectives of the lesson here were twofold, the children practise their reading skills in order to find the information but also to improve their knowledge of Orangutans in order to write about them in the following lesson.   Before reading, we discussed and contextualised the tricky words from the image below. 

The Reading Sheet

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Response/Poster Sheet without questions

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Response/Poster sheet

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Tricky Words
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Click here to download the resources

In the next session we watched the 'Rang Tan' video voiced by Emma Thompson and discussed the dual narrative and the story it told.   The children followed the text and read along.  There are opportunities here for performance, the children could choose a section to perform dramatically. 
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Following the reading sessions, we then decided that we would write letters to the Prime Minister in protest against palm oil products in the UK.

This began with a discussion about persuasion.  We decided that we should describe the beauty of the Orangutan as in the model below.  This would act as a persuasive device as people are more likely to protest for something if they have a relationship with them. 
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The second part of the writing will involve a number of persuasive devices such as repetition to echo the forest and rhetorical questions to make the audience think. 

I shall update with examples of children's work when complete.

If you would like to see further resources like this on www.literacyshedplus.com please comment to below. 
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21 Comments
Laura
8/10/2018 01:07:39 pm

Hi there, I can't seem to download these resources, nothing happens when you click 'click here to download'.

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callum
8/2/2021 10:11:36 am

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hulk link
8/2/2021 10:26:00 am

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Louise Boulton
17/11/2018 09:35:39 am

Fantastic resource and planning ideas - thank you, really looking forward to ding this with my kids and seeing your children's work once completed. Thank you

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Maddy
25/11/2018 07:53:33 pm

Really looking forward to using this, thank you!

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Jemma
2/12/2018 08:56:16 pm

I would love to see more resources like this is on the LSP website ;) I covering persuasive writing... Have you got any examples of the children's work for WAGOLL? :)

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Neil Prendergast
17/4/2019 11:22:15 am

I would also appreciate these if available!

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Nicola Gordelier link
19/12/2018 05:57:37 pm

I think we should have more perswasive writing and I think that advert should not be banned oranotangs are inportant and so are others good job Iceland!

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Emily
27/1/2019 01:27:01 pm

Thanks for a great lesson plan. I'm going to use this with my EFL learners!

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Imogen Fearon
27/2/2019 02:23:53 pm

Saving our environment is such an important issue currently. Fantastic video to get kids hooked into this topic with fantastic writing opportunities.

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liz
24/3/2019 10:48:45 am

In one of the resources - sceintific is spelled incorrectly. Would it be possible to edit. Is there any planning for this?

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Cheryl
15/5/2019 10:43:35 am

Please can you send me any plans on this. Looks fab!

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Lewis
24/9/2019 10:35:22 am

Please can I have the planning and any resources you have. Thank you

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Nick Lee
22/1/2020 10:43:11 am

A really powerful animation. I'm going to be using this as a stimulus for persuasive writing with my Year 6. Currently thinking of writing a letter to the supermarkets/palm oil producers that aren't doing it sustainably, or to the Prime Minister. I'll let you know how it goes. Are these resources available as a bundle that could be emailed?

Do you have any other 'Persuasive Writing' resources/plans - much like in the Lit Shed + units, as there doesn't appear to be any?

Apologies if there are and I've overlooked them!

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Brenda wann
25/6/2020 03:41:39 am

The youtube video isn't available - it says it's private.
Can you please let us know what it was called or change the settings?

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callum
8/2/2021 10:18:01 am

i do not do it and it is stping pleaas can you stop it

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... link
8/2/2021 10:22:20 am

hey teachers
how ya doinn?
this is fun watching
it really is
glad you like it
even though I didn't make it...
hee hee...
from mystery person
BYE!

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Lhynzie link
27/10/2021 09:25:20 am

This is nice. Thank you for sharing. Keep on posting.

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Robyn Melles
7/3/2022 02:16:32 am

Amazing resources and perfect for generating language and a point of view in our children. Thanks

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fiona White
11/5/2022 03:45:16 pm

have you got the children's work to show?

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Jr D link
17/7/2022 04:55:03 pm

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