Healthy Lifestyles

Lesson One | Introduction to Healthy Choices

Lesson Two | Persuasive Techniques in Health Advertising

Lesson Three | Persuasive Writing Features

Lesson Four | Linking Health Information to Persuasion

Lesson Five | Planning

Lesson Six | Writing the Persuasive

Lesson Seven | Editing

Unit Objectives

Identify strategies to stay healthy and active.
Understand common persuasive techniques and how they are used in advertising and writing.
Explore how health information (posters, websites, advice) influences decisions.
Plan, draft, and publish a persuasive letter promoting healthy habits.

Lesson One | Introduction to Healthy Choices

Learning Intentions

What it means to make healthy choices every day.
How food, exercise, and sleep help us stay healthy.
How to find and use information to support our ideas about healthy living.

Success Criteria

I can describe what a healthy choice is and why it’s important.
I can name at least three ways to stay healthy.
I can find facts from a website and explain how they help support healthy living.

Engage

Good health is not just the absence of disease or illness, it is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. This means eating a balanced diet, getting regular exercise, avoiding tobacco and drugs and getting plenty of rest. Our bodies are like machines that require a balance of protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins, minerals and water to stay in good working order. Get the balance wrong and your health will suffer.

Describe what a healthy choice is and why it’s important.

Name at least three ways to stay healthy.

Activity

Healthy Lifestyle Research.pdf

Use the following website to find the information you will
need to write a persuasive on the topic: Healthy Lifestyles.

https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/healthy-and-active-children

Google search: Healthy and Active Children

You are only researching for the first two sessions.

Use the graphic organiser to help you with your research.

Remember, the more information you have, the easier it is to write.

Lesson Two | Persuasive Techniques in Health Advertising

Learning Intentions

Identify persuasive techniques in health ads and explain how they influence decisions.

Success Criteria

I can recognise persuasive features in health ads.
I can explain how these techniques encourage healthy choices.

Engage

What was the health message?

Was it persuasive? How?

Learn

Persuasive_Techniques

Activity

workbook.pdf

Reflect

How could this ad influence someone’s health choices?

Lesson Three | Persuasive Writing Features

Learning Intentions

Recognise persuasive techniques in texts and understand their purpose.

Success Criteria

I can identify persuasive strategies in One Word from Sophia.
I can explain why these strategies make writing convincing.

Read

What was her message?

Was it persuasive? How?

Learn

persuasive-devices-powerpoint-english_ver_3

Activity

Read the book again and find examples for each persuasive device.

workbook.pdf

Reflect

Which persuasive technique do you think is most powerful?

Why?

Lesson Four | Linking Health Information to Persuasion

Learning Intentions

Use health information to support persuasive arguments.

Success Criteria

I recognise PEEL structure in a mentor text.
I can write the main point of a paragraph.
I can write supporting evidence.

Refresh

Activity

workbook.pdf

Share your writing with the class.

Lesson Five | Planning

Learning Intentions

Plan my persuasive piece using Seven Steps writing graph

Success Criteria

I can plan an introduction, body, and conclusion.
I can include three reasons supported by health facts.
I can finish my writing with a call to action.

Refresh

What needs to be included in a persuasive piece of writing?

Activity

Why We Should Make Healthy Choices Every Day!

Task Overview
Write a persuasive text encouraging your peers to make healthy lifestyle choices. Use facts, examples, and persuasive language to explain why healthy habits—like eating nutritious food, staying active, and getting enough sleep—are important.

Writing Prompt
Imagine Mr Middleton has asked you to write a piece for the school newsletter for the students at your school to convince them to live a healthier lifestyle. What choices should they make? Why are these choices important?

Arguments

Choose the three topics you are going to use for your persuasive.

Use the time to write a topic sentence for each argument.

Sizzling Starts

We can use several techniques to help us start our persuasive writing in an interesting and engaging way.

Ask rhetorical questions

Asking a question without expecting an answer.

Rule of Three

List 3 things, or repeat words or sounds three times.

Interesting Facts

Include a fact the reader may not know.

Create pictures in the readers' mind

Describe how something looks/sounds/feels like.

Introduction

Don't forget to include:

🎯where

🎯 what

🎯 opinion

Conclusion

Ending with Impact

Don't forget to:

🎯recap your point of view

🎯 review your answers

🎯 include a call to action

Call to action: a prompt that tells an audience what specific action to take

Lesson Six | Writing the Persuasive

Learning Intentions

Write a persuasive piece in NAPLAN structured time using persuasive language and techniques.

Success Criteria

I can write a clear introduction, body, and conclusion.
I can include persuasive language and health facts.

Activity

Why We Should Make Healthy Choices Every Day!

Glue the checklist onto your paper.

Rule up both sides of your paper with a margin and a line across the top.

Let's go through your checklist.

You will have 40 minutes to write you persuasive (practising for NAPLAN).

40 mins Introduction sizzling start | who | where | opinion

32 mins Argument 1 Point | Explain | Evidence | Link (opinion)

24 mins Argument 2 Point | Explain | Evidence | Link (opinion)

16 mins Argument 3 Point | Explain | Evidence | Link (opinion)

8 mins Conclusion Opinion | review | call to action

Lesson Seven | Editing

Learning Intentions

Edit my writing to strengthen my persuasive.

Success Criteria

I can use CUPS to bring clarity to my writing using high modality words, and text structure.
I can use CUPS to ensure correct spelling and punctuation.

Revise

Activity

Using a red pencil or pen, read through your work:

🎯 correct any Capitals you have missed (3 minutes)

🎯 correct any Punctuation (.!?"",' you have missed (3 minutes)

🎯 correct any Spelling, ask each other, use a dictionary, ask me (5 minutes)

In threes:

🎯 each person reads their writing to their group.
Help the writer find any errors with their sentence fluency; Understanding.

(5 minutes each)

On your own:

🎯 read you work again to yourself to do any final editing.

(10 minutes)

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