Description
This writer’s workshop unit has everything you need to introduce and develop opinion writing in your classroom!
This unit includes:
*10 step by step lessons to teach opinion writing. Each lesson includes a mini lesson, independent writing, and shared writing. Anchor chart pieces, mini-anchor charts for students’ writer’s notebooks, conferencing labels and sticky notes, goal setting pages are included.
Mini lessons include:
*What is opinion writing?
*Linking opinions with reasons
*Determining your own opinion about a topic
*Writing an introduction and hooking your reader
*Parts of opinion writing
*Using transition words, phrases, and clauses
*Using facts to support your opinion
*Strengthening your argument
*Writing a call to action
*Writing a strong conclusion
*FIVE extra mini lessons included: capitalization rules, subject-verb agreement, adjective order, verb tenses, and a standards based opinion writing checklist.
*EIGHT classroom posters included.
*Revising and editing tools include helpful bookmarks, labels to keep tools such as colored pencils and highlighters, and spider legs for students to use while revising.
*A personal spelling dictionary to keep track of easily misspelled words.
*Labels for student folders: students name, what I’m working on, and writing tools.
*Paper for published work: 20 lined pages with 20 coordinated unlined pages for writing and illustrations of published work.
*Student friendly rubric based on grades 3-5 CCCS standards and I Can Statements.
*Bulletin board letters: In Our Opinion and #ouropinioncounts
*Binder cover, spines, dividers to keep all your pages organized
Click here to check out the growing bundle of writer’s workshop units that also includes:
*Launching Writing Worshop
*Personal Narrative Writing
*Persuasive Writing
*Expository Writing
*Imaginative Writing
*Procedural Writing
*Descriptive Writing
If you have any questions, please email me at jen@twolittlebirdsteaching.com.
Teaching Euphoria –
This resource was helpful in guiding my students and I during our opinion writing unit.
STACEY B. –
This was great for my students to create and reference as they were writing!
Learning in the ByrdHouse –
This was a good unit with lots of graphic organizers
Maria C G. –
This was easy to use, well-organized, and saved me valuable planning time. My students were engaged, and the materials aligned well with our learning goals. Thank you for creating such a helpful tool!
Emily Tuttle –
This a very fun and engaging activity for my students I would highly recommend!
TONYA F. –
It was just what I was looking for since I had nothing to use at the time,
Esther K. –
Well structured, straight forward and interestingly laid out guide for student to work on skills of good quality opinion writing one step at a time. Student enjoying the tasks, also contains great suggestions for teacher to use to stimulate creative responses and keep the child engaged.
Amy S. –
I really like this resource, but I was hoping for a digital version. Is there a digital version that I am not seeing? In today’s techie world, I assumed one automatically came with your resources. Let me know!
Thank you!
TLB –
No, it is not meant to be digital and does not state anywhere in the description that it is digital. I strongly suggest you read the description and look for the “digital” tag from TpT before purchasing resources if you’re only looking for digital resources. To give a 3 star rating because it is not digital seems unfair, as it should not just be assumed as there are many markers on the website to show which resources are digital. The way the units are set up doesn’t seem a good fit for a digital resource so I have not converted it.
Jamisa Mccall –
I always love your units, they are easy to follow and so engaging.
Clare S. –
So easy to follow!
Valerie B. –
Great resource to help teach opinion writing.
Kayla G. –
Love this resource!
Le monde de l’immersion –
Great and easy for my students to follow!
Gram’s Grammar –
My students loved this!
Kimberly Caldie –
This is a GREAT resource! You have everything you would ever need to guide your students through opinion writing. My kids wrote incredible papers and enjoyed it so much! Thank you!
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MC Stephanie –
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