Learning Areas
General Description
This course will help you teach primary students how to understand and use persuasive language. You will explore how to use videos and documentaries to assist students with identifying how texts are trying to influence their audience.
You’ll learn:
- How to use videos to teach persuasive language and texts.
- How to explore a ‘big issue’ that will make learning English meaningful to Year 3-6 students.
- How to use a range of rhetorical devices, including pathos, ethos and logos.
- How to access free lesson plans and student worksheets.
Audience
Primary Teachers
Available Delivery Formats
Format Description
24/7 course access
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
- If you have a TTA subscription or membership please ignore the pricing when enrolling. Rest assured if your school has a subscription you will not be charged and for Memberships, your invoice will be adjusted accordingly to reflect your discount.
- If you have no subscription or membership but you are interested in placing a bulk discounted order for a team of teachers see the ONLINE TEAM tab above.
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- Money-Back Guarantee – If you complete less than 25% of an online course and aren’t impressed, simply visit tta.edu/go/refund to let us know what happened, and we will cancel your enrolment and provide a full refund.
Teaching Standards
2.5.2 Proficient Level – Literacy and numeracy strategies
3.3.2 Proficient Level – Use teaching strategies
3.4.2 Proficient Level – Select and use resources
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This course contributes to 2.0 professional development hours.
Occurrences
Sessions
Introduction
5 minutes
Get started with your online professional development.
English Curriculum
35 minutes
Explore where persuasive texts sit in the primary curriculum
Persuasive Language
35 minutes
Learn three rhetorical devices and them in action in videos.
Your Teaching
35 minutes
Download lesson plans and hear from other teachers.
Reflection
10 minutes
Reflect on your course learning and next steps.
User Rating
4.6Latest Reviews
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Teach Persuasive Language using Videos - Cool Australia
08/10/2020
The course went through logically and explained clearly the types of persuasive language we can use. I feel better equipped to teach persuasive writing.
Teach Persuasive Language using Videos - Cool Australia
27/04/2020
The rhetorical devices apply to teaching students to produce a quality piece of persuasive text.
Teach Persuasive Language using Videos - Cool Australia
18/04/2020
It was useful course ,however more curriculum links would have helped
Teach Persuasive Language using Videos - Cool Australia
18/04/2020
Very relevant and easy to access content. Something that will definitely be used in the classroom when teaching persuasive language!
Teach Persuasive Language using Videos - Cool Australia
18/04/2020
Relevant
Teach Persuasive Language using Videos - Cool Australia
02/09/2019
Effective content
Teach Persuasive Language using Videos - Cool Australia
02/09/2019
The quality of the course was excellent. The videos provided are an excellent tool that I will use with my class. I liked the messages in the videos and the fact that they weren’t too long. I like the prompting questions as I will use this with my students as well. Overall it was a really interesting course.
Teach Persuasive Language using Videos - Cool Australia
02/09/2019
I loved that I could connect to my areas of teaching.
Teach Persuasive Language using Videos - Cool Australia
01/08/2019
The quality of the course was excellent. The videos provided are an excellent tool that I will use with my class. I liked the messages in the videos and the fact that they weren’t too long. I like the prompting questions as I will use this with my students as well. Overall it was a really interesting course.
Teach Persuasive Language using Videos - Cool Australia
01/08/2019
I loved that I could connect to my areas of teaching.
Teach Persuasive Language using Videos - Cool Australia
22/12/2018
Excellent
Teach Persuasive Language using Videos - Cool Australia
22/12/2018
High quality
Teach Persuasive Language using Videos - Cool Australia
22/12/2018
High quality videos and activities to work through that I found very enjoyable. This is very relevant to teaching about persuasive texts, and I will strive to include knowledge I have learnt from this course in my future teaching.
About the team
Cool Australia
Creator
Cool Australia is an award winning not-for-profit dedicated to supporting educators with tools to foster ‘learning for life’. We help integrate topics around sustainability, ethics, economics and wellbeing across the curriculum. This enables teachers of all age groups and disciplines to engage young Aussies in real-life learning whilst achieving Australian Curriculum and Early Years Learning Framework outcomes. Our accredited professional development is designed to build your confidence, understanding and expertise. You will learn through a mixture of practical and thinking activities as well as hearing the stories of others. Plus you will access a range of teaching tools that can you can use straight away in your teaching.