WALT:recognise the features of persuasive writing

Session 3 and 4 – Thursday 16th and Friday 17th April 2020

In this session, you will• learn about ways to write in a persuasively• understand that it is important to justify your opinions• choose and use appropriate and ambitious vocabulary

Spiders

You are one of the gods! Your task is to persuade the other gods to let you create spiders to fill gaps or holes in the world.

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Spiders are an important contributor to the ecosystem. Spiders help control the populations on many other household pests. Spiders can eat up 880 million insects a year!

There are around 40,000

species of spiders, and all

but one of those species is

carnivorous!

Even though spiders have eight eyes, most of them can’t see very well – they rely on what they feel in order to know when they’ve caught prey in their webs.

Spiders have evolved to spin

very strong and beautiful silk

webs so they can catch insects to

eat. We don’t usually notice just

how strong they can be because

they are amazingly thin and

delicate.

Spiders can look scary and intimidating but

the vast majority of spiders are harmless.

They only bite in self defence.

Spiders lay eggs, and store them in an

egg sac to keep them safe.

It takes a spider about an hour to

build a web, and they usually build a

new one every day.

Some young spiders and smaller spiders will use their

silk to help them travel around by floating in the air – this

is called ballooning. They shoot off some silk that catches in the wind, helping them drift to a new home

What language could we use ?

Adjectives

Emotive Language

Strong Verbs

beautiful amazing fantastic

best in the world mind-blowing

entangles constructs

Adverbs

captures

silently cunningly majestically

SIMILES - as strong as as delicate as move like graceful

instinctively

weaves

beneficial

cunning

How could you persuade the other gods that the spider should fill a gap tomake it a more interesting world to live in ?

So it’s your turn now

Here’s a WAGOLL introduction and sentence ideas to help you … remember take a fact and use it to create a short paragraph. When you come to the end, remember to write a really good conclusion to make the reader stop and think – to make them agree with you!

I want to tell you all about the most amazing creature that I wish to create to fill a gap in our world. It is called a spider and it will not only be spectacular to look at, but very beneficial to the marvelous world we have created together. How about that!

The spider is not a boring creature, as it ………………………………

My spiders will be able to move in different ways using it’s eight, yes, eight, wonderful hairy legs! …………………….

All spiders are cunning, silent and incredible hunters, even though …………….

Spider’s webs will not only be amazingly …………………………… but

Interestingly, spiders lay eggs that ……………

Finally, I believe that / I feel strongly that / in my opinion ………….

Take a look at this website, there are lots of facts about spiders and some interesting video clips (towards the bottom of the page) to help you with your writing.

https://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/spiders