Get your students excited about opinion writing! ✏️
This complete opinion writing unit takes your 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders through the whole writing process, from getting ideas to a published opinion essay. Use it two ways: students choose their own topics, OR they write in response to a text or prompt.
What's included
- 31 minilessons with lesson plans, in three parts: core teaching points, bonus minilessons for small groups and conferring, and writing in response to text
- PowerPoint slides to model and teach every lesson
- Writing notebook anchor charts for every lesson (so students have the strategies at their fingertips!), plus full-size anchor charts
- Rubrics & checklists, graphic organizers, and a mini word wall
- Reasons + evidence sort
- Teacher example essay + planning
- Mentor text recommendations and publishing paper
The minilessons
Core lessons: Study a Mentor Text · Getting Ideas · Collect Entries · Writers Rehearse · Reasons and Evidence · Structure of Opinion Writing · Make a Plan Using Boxes & Bullets · Using Transition Words · Hook the Reader · Reason Paragraphs · Precise Word Choice · Expert Words · Elaboration · Craft a Conclusion · Revise · Edit · Polish & Publish
Bonus minilessons: Strong, Bold Thesis Statements · Addressing the Audience's Concerns · Address Counterclaims · When, Why, and How to Use Transitions · Choosing Convincing Reasons · Endings: Restate + Call to Action · Strong Evidence · Color Code the Text · Using Repetition
Writing in response to text: Unpack the Prompt · Close Read to Collect Evidence · Use Charts and Text Features as Evidence · What Makes Strong Evidence? · Citing Text Evidence
The lessons don't have to be taught in order. Skip, move, or pull them into small groups based on what your writers need.
Save with a bundle ⭐
This unit is also in the Narrative, Opinion & Informational Writing Bundle, the Narrative & Opinion Bundle, and the Informational & Opinion Bundle.
Need opinion prompts and texts to go with it? The Monthly Text Sets are the perfect companion. Each one has paired articles and an essay prompt.
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Happy teaching!
-Jessica
