English Resource: Lion’s lair (KS2)
Resource sheet
Persuasive features teacher checklist
Instructions:
Use this mind map of techniques and language to support the exploration of persuasive techniques
as part of the starter activity Media marvels.
Formal or Informal?
Use rhetorical questions
Awareness of audience
Present tense
Model verbs
Emotive language
Exaggerated language
Logical connections
Disguise
opinions as fact
Structure your
argument clearly
Persuasion
Use personal pronouns
Memorable
slogans or
names
Try the ‘rule of 3’
Use repetition
to reinforce
Rhyme?
Alliteration?
Play on words
Facts to support
Imperatives
Positive statements
Testimonials?
Endorsements?
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Visual aids can
be powerful
Short sentences for effect
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