IB ENG B TEXT TYPES: How to write a PERSUASIVE BROCHURE Pack

A workbook centred around a mentor text which promotes a new theme park for teenagers through a persuasive brochure. Students are guided through the process of analysing the mentor text, responding to a research project and using structured planning pages to create their own persuasive brochure.

New: This workbook is part of the SERIES 2 packs / bundle.

How is Series 2 different from Series 1?

Apart from having different text types, in series 2:

- The comprehension questions are based on the types of questions found in the Paper 2 exam.

- The Punctuation Focus page has been replaced by a Grammar Focus page, with questions about the grammar of the mentor text.

- The SL follow-on prompt contains two focus areas rather than three.

- The Vocabulary Extraction frame is different.

Rationale

Now that AI apps and programs are able to write convincing texts, it is imperative that we, as IB English B teachers, encourage students to make the entire writing process from brainstorming, researching, planning, drafting and re-drafting absolutely visible.

Therefore, I have written a series of workbooks wherein students handwrite the entire writing process using guided prompts, worksheets, task cards, answer templates and planning pages.

I am an experienced teacher and professional writer who has taught IB English B for over ten years.

Because I thoroughly enjoy the writing process, and because I want to be able to explain that process to my students, I can assure you I have written each mentor text without the aid of any artificial intelligence writing software, websites, apps, or programmes.

For students to make all stages of the writing process visible, I have also created a series of workbooks based around each of the mentor texts included here.

The workbooks have two parts.

Part ONE contains worksheets to encourage students to do these activities:

- read the jumbled version of the mentor text and sequence the different elements correctly

- discuss and make decisions about the choice of text type to fulfil the requirements of the prompt

- read the actual mentor text

- answer comprehension questions to show understanding of the mentor text - now based on actual exam-type questions

- identify and label the different features of the mentor text

- explain different grammar aspects

- answer questions about synonyms, antonyms and the meaning of words

- determine how the main ideas in paragraphs are developed and extended.

Part TWO invites students to write that text type using a follow-on prompt and to show handwritten evidence (by writing everything into the workbook) that they have …

- conducted a mini-research project to provide them with the necessary background information for the content of the task

- extracted relevant vocabulary and created sentence frames to assist the writing process

- used a structured planning page to jot down notes for each element of the writing task

- followed a step-by-step guide to writing their first draft

- assessed their first drafts with an informative checklist that also contains relevant advice to help them improve their first draft.

The entire writing process, from understanding and using a mentor text, to researching, thinking about, planning, and redrafting is therefore completely visible and should provide students with enough practice to confidently write about each text type in their examinations.

Each Student Workbook Pack contains:

- SL Version – with answer options for Part 1 worksheets

- HL Version – without answer options for Part 1 worksheets

- One-page Jumbled Mentor Text Starter – the elements of the mentor text are jumbled up and students need to sequence them correctly

- An answer key for Part 1 worksheets.

The first 9 writing packs in SERIES ONE cover the following:

· Article about learning to learn (Human Ingenuity)

· Blog about the impact of social media (Identity)

· Diary Entry about cultural gaffes (Social Organization)

· Essay about the need to learn writing skills (Human Ingenuity)

· Informal Email about pet euthanasia (Experiences)

· Letter to the Editor about plastic pollution (Sharing the Planet)

· Proposal about improving International Day (Social Organization)

· Review of a fiction book (Experiences)

· Speech about saving a zoo (Sharing the Planet)

This Persuasive Brochure, about a new theme park exclusively for teens (Human Ingenuity), is the 2nd in the 2nd Series of Workbook Packs.