Persuasive writing · Years 7–9
Starts with a writing check. Builds a 12-week roadmap around your child’s actual strengths and gaps. Adjusts every week — from their own sentences.
The free writing check opens with the pilot. No card needed, and we never write your child’s sentences for them.
Mia’s paragraph · with feedback
Phones should be banned in class because they stop students from concentrating. “Last week in maths I counted nine people checking their phones in one lesson.” “This shows that phones are bad.”
What worked
A specific example you saw yourself
One thing to fix
Show how your example proves your point
“What did those nine people miss while they were on their phones?”
A sample paragraph from a fictional Year 8 student, with the feedback pattern: one thing that worked, one priority fix, then a question to think about.
The process
We diagnose, plan, teach and adjust — but only your child writes every sentence.
One timed piece in the app, about 35 minutes. We find two real strengths and the one skill that will make the biggest difference.
Four phases, always in the same order because the skills build on each other. Extra time on their priorities, faster through what they already do well.
A short lesson, drills, a model, then one paragraph. The Saturday essay is timed, and the whole week is about 2.5 hours.
Every Saturday essay is reviewed, and next week changes because of it. Week 12: the same prompt as week 0, side by side.
One program, personalised
Both students follow the same four phases, in the same order, because the skills build on each other. Their writing checks are different, so their twelve weeks are too: where the extra time goes, what moves faster, and what each Saturday essay asks for.
Phase 1
Weeks 1–3
Planning, structure, position
Phase 2
Weeks 4–6
Evidence, appeals, the persuasive toolkit
Phase 3
Weeks 7–9
Sentences, vocabulary, the other side
Phase 4
Weeks 10–12
Endings, timed writing, the retest
Strong: Clear position, paragraph structure
Priorities: Explaining evidence, writing for the reader, persuasive techniques
Saturday essays: 450–600 words, 50 minutes
Strong: Lively voice, persuasive techniques
Priorities: Clear position, paragraph structure, spelling and punctuation
Saturday essays: 300–450 words, 40 minutes, with a daily proofread from week 1
The four phases and their order, the weekly rhythm, the Saturday essay, and a check-in every three weeks.
Extra weeks for priorities, combined weeks for strengths, essay length by year level, and the drills inside each week.
The roadmap changes only from evidence in the student’s own writing, and every change is shown with its reason.
The approach
Hints escalate: a question, then a sentence starter, then an example on a different topic. We never rewrite their paragraph, and the AI never writes an essay for them.
A page of red pen teaches nothing. Each piece of feedback picks the single change that matters most right now, and shows the sentence it is talking about.
Check-in tasks are marked separately from practice and shown as an estimate for the year level. Never a predicted NAPLAN score.
No ads, no leaderboards, no pressure copy. Help is always one tap away, and reminders are off by default.
Every judgement is tied to the NAPLAN persuasive writing criteria and the Australian Curriculum: English v9 — and backed by the exact sentence in the student’s writing that it refers to.
For parents
A short weekly email and a read-only progress page. Progress comes from check-in tasks every three weeks, marked separately from practice.
Sample weekly email
Mia worked on explaining her evidence and revised two paragraphs this week. Her latest one linked her example to her argument clearly for the first time.
Before and after · Mia chose to share
“This shows that phones are bad.”
“Those nine students missed the explanation of the new formula, so the phone pulled their attention away at exactly the moment they needed to concentrate.”
Week 3 check-in · estimated
From the week-3 check-in, marked separately from practice. Not a predicted NAPLAN result.
How to help at home
Ask Mia what those nine students in maths actually missed. Explaining it out loud is the same skill she is practising in her writing.
Parents see a student’s writing only when the student chooses to share a piece.
Sample progress page
Skills over time
Levels: Beginning, Developing, Working towards, At expected, Strong. A change counts as progress only when it is larger than our marking’s measured variation.
Plan changes from reviews
Levels are estimates from check-in tasks marked separately from practice, not a predicted NAPLAN result.
Safety and privacy
Redraft is built for 12–15 year olds, so the safeguards are part of the product rather than an add-on.
Founder story
[Partner teacher quote after the pilot]
This section will hold the founder’s own account of the 12-week persuasive writing programme this product is built from, and a partner teacher’s words after the pilot. It stays empty until the founder decides what to share and the teacher gives permission — nothing is invented in the meantime.
Pricing
Start free, and pay only when the full 12-week roadmap is worth it to your family.
A$0
A$8 per month
Prices are in Australian dollars. The free plan needs no card. During the pilot the monthly plan is paid through a hosted payment link, and you can cancel at any time. Quotas reset each month.
Check-in levels are estimates from tasks marked separately from practice, never a predicted NAPLAN result.
FAQ
About 2.5 hours across the week: a short lesson, drills, one paragraph, and a timed essay on Saturday. A single sitting is usually 15–20 minutes, and the weekly goal is three.
Years 7–9 (students aged 12–15) writing persuasive texts. The skills and tasks are aligned to the Australian Curriculum: English v9 for those year levels.
The rubric is built on the NAPLAN persuasive writing marking criteria, and check-ins estimate the ten criteria so you can see where your child sits. Those estimates are ours, never a predicted NAPLAN result or band.
No. The AI gives feedback on your child’s own sentences and never rewrites their paragraph or writes an essay for them. Hints escalate from a question to a sentence starter to an example on a different topic, so your child writes every word.
Writing is screened for wellbeing before any other AI task sees it. Prompts sent to an AI provider carry the year level and the writing only — no name, email, school or location. Raw prompt logs hold scrubbed text only and are deleted after 30 days. You see writing only when your child chooses to share it.
The free plan needs no card and you can stay on it. The monthly plan is charged through a hosted payment link during the pilot, and you can cancel any time.
Join the pilot
The pilot runs with a small group of Years 7–9 families so we can watch the program work and fix it quickly. Leave a parent email and your state, and we’ll be in touch.
We keep this list separate from product data, use it only to contact you about the pilot, and delete it if you ask us to.
We’re finishing the privacy review before we collect any parent emails, so the waitlist form is switched off for now. Check back shortly.