Persuasive Language Features | MR FORESTAP | Interactive Learning Wall Display

Stop teaching persuasive language features in isolation. Make them visible, interactive and actually used. Too often, persuasive techniques are taught once… and then forgotten.

This resource is designed to make language features explicit, visible and actively used throughout your persuasive writing unit.

Why this resource?

If students don’t understand how persuasion works, they can’t apply it in their writing. This interactive display supports you to move beyond surface-level teaching and into deep, purposeful use of persuasive language.

When language features are visible and revisited consistently, students are more confident to:
✔ identify techniques in texts
✔ understand their purpose and impact
✔ apply them confidently in their own writing

What’s Included:

1. MR FORESTAP Display (a clear and comprehensive acronym to teach persuasive language features to high school students: modality, repetition, facts, opinion, repetition, emotive language, statistics, tricolon, alliteration and personal pronouns)
2. Definitions & Student-Friendly Examples
3. Matching Blank Display Templates for students to add their own examples

What makes this different?

This isn’t just a display — it’s designed for co-construction. Students don’t just see examples — they create them, add them to the wall and build a shared understanding of how persuasive language works.

Perfect For:

✔ All years Persuasive Writing
✔ Learning walls & visible learning environments
✔ Explicit instruction of language features
✔ Supporting student ownership and engagement

From recognising techniques to using them with purpose. Turn your learning wall into a space where students actively build, apply and refine their understanding of persuasive language.