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We are learning to identify the features of transactional texts and explain how they are used to influence the reader.

I can:

✅ Identify persuasive techniques (e.g. emotive language, rhetorical questions, repetition).
✅ Explain the author’s purpose in a persuasive text.
✅ Describe how the structure and language features support the purpose.
✅ Give examples from the text to support their analysis.

Victorian Curriculum Links

Level 5–6 English – Reading and Viewing

• VCELY319: Identify and explain how text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts.

• VCELY320: Identify the author’s purpose and explain how text structures and language features support this.

• VCELY321: Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text.

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• Ask:

  • Who do you think wrote this and why?

  • What is the author trying to get you to think, feel or do?

  • What words, phrases does the author use to persuade the reader?