Sample Compositions
Persuasive letter Question: Write a letter to your school principal asking her to let your school enter a team in a school competition.
Writer’s address and date
Sandy Bay P.O. Saint John 22nd March, 2017
The Principal, Sunny View Primary School,
Recipient’s address
Sandy Bay, Saint John
Dear Mrs. Jones, Please will you enter a team from our school in the National Spelling Bee this year? We have spelling tests in our class each week and many of us get full marks every time. If we enter the competition, it will encourage us to do even better in our spelling. Our form teacher, Mrs. Phillips, has promised to practise with us regularly before the competition. We will all work very hard so that we do not let the school down. It would be a great honour for us to be selected to compete and our parents will be very proud of us. If we do well in the competition, it will be a great honour for Sunny View School too. Even if we do not do win a prize, we will still improve our spelling. This will help us in our examinations next year. We hope that you will allow us to take part in the competition.
Greeting
Purpose for writing
Reasons used to persuade
Body of letter
Closing remarks
Yours sincerely, Jordan Richards
Closing
Signature
• Point out the six parts of a formal letter : writer’s address and date, recipient’s address, greeting, body of letter, closing, signature. • Ask students to tell you how this letter differs from the friendly letter on the previous page (layout, greeting, closing) . • Note the reasons given by the writer to persuade the principal to agree to her request.
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