Oral language and vocabulary are essential for success in writing. Students need opportunities to generate and learn relevant vocabulary and have time to generate ideas orally.

These persuasive sentence starters are organised on the hamburger structure to support students to generate persuasive sentences and structure their ideas.

There is a basic and advanced version.

 

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