Year 7 have met eight persuasive devices and now need to recognise them in texts not written for the classroom. The teacher builds a Wayground quiz from fifteen short extracts taken from charity leaflets and adverts, each asking which device is doing the work: direct address, emotive language, statistic, expert opinion, rhetorical question, rule of three, imperative or anecdote. Students play in the student-paced mode with answers shown after each question, so each sees straight away whether an answer was right along with the teacher's one-line explanation, and Redemption Questions at the end give them another go at questions they missed. After ten minutes the teacher checks the per-question report, sees that most of the class is confusing anecdote with emotive language, and stops the room for a five-minute contrast using two of the extracts. Students then finish the quiz and write their own example of each of the two confused devices in their books.
Tools: Wayground (formerly Quizizz) Nine ideas for your own version in Generate
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