You can use these helpful feedback templates when your students are writing persuasively.

Designed to be glued into a workbook following a draft piece of persuasive writing, these templates will help your students to assess their work. There are two differentiated pages of templates. The first page has been designed for Year 4 students who might require some support with writing. The second page has criteria that are directly aligned with the Year 4 Australian Curriculum content descriptors listed. These content descriptors are relevant to persuasive writing.

There are three feedback templates on the first page and two on the second. You can print as many as you need for your students and then cut them to size. The templates are also available as editable versions so that you can change the criteria if needed.

When a draft has been completed, the student can read back through their work and give themselves a tick for any criteria that they have met. This will also help them to identify any improvements that they could make. Following this, they can ask a classmate to check their work for them and complete the second row of feedback. After making any changes needed, the student can then give their work to the teacher who will complete the third row.

This editing procedure encourages the students to take ownership of improving their work and to contribute to providing feedback for their peers. Reading each other’s work is an important part of the learning process. It also helps to save the teacher marking time as the work should have been well-edited before reaching you and the template can be used for feedback. In addition, you could refer to the curriculum-aligned criteria when initially planning your persuasive writing unit. You can use the template to provide formative feedback during multiple writing activities throughout the unit and you could also use it as part of your summative assessment.This resource downloads as an editable PowerPoint.