NAPLAN LITERACY SKILLS Best and Worst

This workbook provides engaging activities to develop strong persuasive writing skills, encourage critical thinking, and prepare students for NAPLAN writing tasks.

The workbook contains 50 guided 2-page exercises where students decide on the best and worst features of a person, place, event, activity, or situation.

Each activity asks students to list three positive and three negative aspects of the given topic. Students then choose the best and the worst aspect and write a short paragraph explaining the choice.

Each topic also includes a full-length writing task where students use the three good points or the three bad points as supporting ideas for a complete opinion piece.

The simple and straightforward format allows students to have ongoing practice writing persuasive texts in a way that is entertaining and enjoyable.

Key Benefits
- Introduces and develops strong persuasive writing skills
- Simple, straightforward, and engaging activities give students ongoing practice
- Students have extensive practice brainstorming and listing reasons and supporting ideas
- Encourages students to produce well-organised full-length opinion pieces
- Includes full-length writing tasks for opinion pieces, essays, letters, articles, and flyers
- Encourages critical thinking by having students think of pros and cons for a wide range of topics
- Gives students the skills needed to perform well on NAPLAN persuasive writing tasks

Develops Key Persuasive Writing Skills
- Forming and clearly stating an opinion
- Brainstorming reasons and selecting the strongest reasons
- Supporting a point of view with reasons
- Using details and examples to support ideas
- Staying focused on a topic
- Structuring opinion pieces based on supporting ideas
- Considering both pros and cons