Why trees are important Persuasive writing - Troy

Why trees are important

Persuasive writing

Your task: You are going to create a persuasive piece of writing that outlines why trees are important to the environment and why we should look after them and plant more.

You need to:

• Explain your learning about ‘Te Taiao o Tāmaki’ and trees in the environment.
• Explain why trees are important and why we should continue to plant them and keep them safe
• Your research - why we need trees in the environment
• Explain how planting new trees will be sustainable for our future.

Planning section - Plan your writing here

Introduction - Hook the reader

Hook the reader/audience - here you will write what you will be discussing. Also why you are talking about it. This will be the place where you add the topic for the term “Te Taiao o Tāmaki” and how it has lead to you looking at the importance of trees. The importance of trees: What we will be discussing: We will be talking about the importance of trees Trees give you oxygen. Trees give you food. Trees give you houses. Tress give you fire. Trees give you money. Trees give you sticks. If the trees die we all die

Paragraph one - Losing our trees

Here you will need to write about how we are destroying trees and what this is doing to the environment. Here you can add facts about how many trees have been destroyed vs how many we are planting. We need to stop cutting down trees for money we are killing nature. If we don’t we'll die.  We need to plant more trees and banned cutting down trees. If you cut more then you grow then you're taking away trees bit by bit. A wiseman once said when you cut all the trees down you can’t eat money.

Paragraph two - Why trees are important for the environment

Here you will write about what trees do for the environment this could include how it helps people, animals and other wildlife. Trees shelter the wildlife. Also feed all kinds of animals. They give the monkeys A place to live.

Paragraph Three

With persuasive writing you need to include information that supports the other side even if you don’t agree with it. Here you will need to include some facts that support the chopping down and destruction of trees. Write these facts however you will be able to support your side by explaining how this show trees are important. When you chop down A tree It gives you? The trees give you paper. The Trees give you fire wood. The trees give you  houses

Paragraph Four

This paragraph will be looking ahead and what will happen if we don’t change what we are doing with how we protect our trees. We all want to protect our planet, but we're mostly too busy or too lazy to put up big change that would improve our lifestyle and save the environment. These are 7 simple habits to implement in your everyday life which will make a difference. There is nothing new here but if you follow at least some of these tips, you can be proud of yourself participating in the protection of the environment.

Paragraph Five

Here you will write about how planting trees is important and persuade people to plant a tree in order to save them.

Conclusion

Here you will need to conclude what you have been writing about in the earlier paragraphs. No new information should be added here you will need to summarise what you have been discussing here. What are we doing to the Environment.