This Roadmap contains part 3 of 3 in opinion writing. This is structured with step by step revision and editing practices for specifically opinion writing with a partner.
Week 26, Day 4---Week 27, Day 3
Opinion Writing Unit
Today we are going to write about a topic that we have spent a lot of time thinking about and discussing. We thought about it while we were reading My Life as a Book especially in the chapter “The Truth is Never What You Think,” and we think about it every day as fourth graders. I want to talk to you about doing what’s right. Specifically, we will discuss whether you should do what’s right for the good of the group or should you do what you think is the right thing to do for you?
Week 13, Day 5
Opinion Writing Task (After reading My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen)
Today you are going to think about all of the dogs we read about in My Life in Dog Years and write a compare/contrast paper about two of the dogs. I want you to think for a few seconds about which one of Paulsen’s dogs you would want to have the most as your pet and the one you would want to have the least.
You will share your paper with someone in our class who chose a different dog than you. After you have listened to one another’s papers, discuss the ideas presented. Talk about whether you changed your mind or not.
Week 13, Day 5---Week 14, Day 1
Opinion Writing Unit: Book Review
"The last time you wrote a book review, I modeled how to complete the graphic organizer. However, today I am going to plan the beginning of our book review very quickly and spend the rest of our time together showing you how to use the graphic organizer to write a book review. We know planning is the first stage in the writing process. We are going to write our book review on Miss Rumphius."
visual: Book Review Graphic Organizer
visual: Book Review Checklist Sample
frame for writing a book review
Week 24, Day 1---Day 5
Opinion Writing Unit
We often think about making good choices.
Today we are going to use a graphic organizer and the opinion checklist to plan this opinion piece
Book Review Graphic Organizer
Opinion Checklist Sample
Today we are going to write to convince people that either it is easy to make the right choice or that sometimes it is hard to make the right choice.
Strong words:
I strongly believe
From my point of view
It’s my belief
Based on what I know
I am convinced
Speaking for myself
I am confident that
Ways you can end an opinion piece: reinforcement, lasting thought, quotation, question.
Students will work on revising, editing, peer revising and editing, and finishing up their final copy.
Learning to Write Opinions
Students will write about "injustice."
Make a graphic organizer model
Opinion Checklist Sample
Students will work on creating their opinion graphic organizer. They will work with or near peers who share their opinion so that they have peers to share ideas with.
Writing reasons that show strong support for opinion.
Plan the conclusion and begin drafting
Ways to end an opinion piece: reinforcement, lasting thought, quotation, question, humor.
Transition Words for Opinion Texts
Students will work on revising, editing, peer revising and editing, and finishing up their final copy
Sharing
WEEK 2, DAY 1
Initial Assessment of Students’ Independent Writing
WEEK 2, DAY 2
Introduction to Opinion Writing
WEEK 2, DAY 3
Learning to Evaluate Opinions
WEEK 2, DAY 4
Learning to Write Opinions
WEEK 2, DAY 5
Learning to Write Opinions
WEEK 2, DAY 2
Learning to Write Opinions
This week we will focus on opinion writing. Let’s think about the parts included in an opinion piece. The parts we are looking for include: introduce the topic, state the opinion, group related ideas, provide reasons supported by facts and details, groups ideas in paragraphs, link opinions and reasons using words and phrases, provide a concluding statement.
WEEK 2, DAY 3
Learning to Evaluate Opinions
Provide each partner pair with 3 different texts and 3 copies of the checklist—Texts 7–9 or other opinion pieces you have available to you.
Chart: Grade 4 Opinion Checklist Sample
practice evaluating opinion pieces using the checklist with your partner.
Provide each partner pair with 3 different texts and 3 copies of the checklist—Texts 7–9 or other opinion pieces you have available to you.
WEEK 2, DAY 4
Learning to Write Opinions
Today, I am going to show you how I use a graphic organizer to make a plan to write an opinion piece. You already learned how to make one for a narrative; today we’ll make one for an opinion.
WEEK 2, DAY 5
Learning to Write Opinions
Today, I am going to show you how to use the graphic organizer to write a thoroughly written response.
Students will need lined paper for the graphic organizer, a copy of the text for each pair and their written response for this prompt. Leave the graphic organizer and response for reference. Students will work on their graphic organizers and then rewrite their responses.
Learning to Write an Opinion (5 days)
Day 1. For this end of year project, you are going to do one last book review, but this time it is going to be in the form of an advertisement. You will share your ads with the 2nd graders as a preview for what they will be reading next year and your goal is to get them excited about 3rd grade reading.
Students will choose their favorite book from the year and begin planning the draft of their advertisement with the checklist as their guide. Offer support to students and coach them about the features of an advertisement.
Book Review Opinion Checklist Sample
Day 2. Yesterday you started the draft of your advertisement and planned out the elements from the beginning of the checklist. Today you will finish your draft using the elements of the checklist as a guide. We will look back at the book review checklist.
Day 3. Today you will need to revise and edit your advertisement and then have a partner revise and edit. Then you will create your final ad with any artwork you want to include. Be sure to think about making a lasting memory for your reader:
-Revise and edit advertisement
-Peer revise and edit
-Create final draft with added artwork
Day 4. Today you will practice presenting your advertisements to a partner.
Review the presentation skills for the presenter and the listener.
Day 5. You will share your advertisements with a lot of 2nd graders today.
Students will present advertisements (and listen and offer feedback or ask questions if their partner is also sharing a review or ad).
Step-by-step instructional videos for opinion writing.
This textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis, the writing process, researching, citing, rhetorical modes, and critical reading. Guided by Oregon's statewide college writing outcomes, this book collects previously published articles, essays, and chapters released under Creative Commons licenses into one free textbook available for online access or print-on-demand.
Etwinning Project Common Links, a resource collection
This textbook covers American Literature from the Colonial Period to Contemporary Times. There is a mix of historical context, literature excerpts, photographs/drawings, and analysis.
After students have read Out of the Dust, they will create a Glogster. They will write about the theme, use their vocabulary words in writing, write using similes, metaphors, and personification in poetry, compare and contrast Billie Jo's experience to someone else in history, and be able to pick an option from a list. They will use their creativity to make their poster appealing to the reader.
Students will be able to read a grade level text, the novel "The Outsiders". As they read they will have to cite information, make inferences and connections, summarize, compare different mediums (book and movie) and learn about the author and how her experiences shaped the novel. Students will also get to write persuasively and creatively during this unit.
This collection includes LDC (Literacy Design Collaborative) modules that have emerged from work completed by PAIU coaches.
With encouragement and ideas from his family, Papa, based on the real-life inventor Lodner Phillips, builds a working submarine that takes his family on a ride to the bottom of Lake Michigan. The resource includes a lesson plan/book card, a design challenge, and copy of a design thinking journal that provide guidance on using the book to inspire students' curiosity for design thinking. Maker Challenge: Students will use materials on hand to design a solution to a problem they see in their school or at home. The invention should meet the needs of fellow students, teachers, bus drivers, principals, siblings, friends, or even parents.
A document is included in the resources folder that lists the complete standards-alignment for this book activity.
As each language has its own alphabet, it also has its own grammar. For English, all the words we see are divided into nine classes or categories. These classes are called Parts of Speech. The dictionaries we use always mention the category of the word and tell us if a word is used in multiple categories of the Parts of Speech.
Knowing the grammar of a language will not enable fluency in your speaking or writing, but it helps. Knowing the functions of the elements of language (i.e. words) helps us in their appropriate and accurate use. This preamble is necessary so as to make us read the definitions and explanations as a new thing; devoid of the stereotyping that happened to us at schools.
Students learn and label different parts of a computer as they begin understanding ties between letters and words. This K-2 activity can be differentiated between coloring parts by names, labeling with the name of the part and labeling with the function of the part. Can be used in conjunction with EL Education lesson 1 in Module 1 Cycle 1 Skills Block lesson (linked in lesson plan).
This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Alystra Barefoot teach about story elements.