Teaching opinion writing

Opinion Writing has always been a favorite for us. Read on for tips, ideas, and freebies to help you plan and teach your Opinion Writing (W K.1 + W 1.1) unit in your primary classroom! When we start our Opinion Writing unit, we always start with a very basic activity. We ask students to pick what they prefer out of two everyday things (i.e. Goldfish or chips, pencil or pen, glue stick or glue bottle, etc). This way every student can relate to what you are asking them to do and they can…

How do you introduce opinion writing to your students? Do you use fun videos, interactive games, books to build background knowledge, or current events? There are many different ways teachers can help students understand the purpose of opinion writing. Here are 7 ideas to introduce opinion writing to your elementary students.

🪝📝HOOK YOUR READER! This week, we are working on an opinion writing piece. Today we talked about why ‘hooks’ are so important to have in o… | Instagram

This sheet is a great resource during opinion writing. I use the "OREO" format (Opinion, reason, example, opinion) to teach opinion writing and this sheet helps students choose correct transition words for each part of their writing. I print on colored paper and have students keep it for the entiret...

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"I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato" I could use to teach about opinion writings, and how to persuade and convince others of what we believe, though it is not a fact.

I love teaching opinion writing. And students love it too. Today I am sharing 8 Must-Do Tips for teaching opinion writing. From mentor texts to editing, assessing, celebrating writing and more, you and your students will be fully engaged in these wonderfully useful teaching tools!

Teaching opinion writing can be a lot of fun in First Grade. First graders have LOTS of opinions, and they love to share them! Here are a few ideas that have helped me to teach opinion writing to first graders. Start by teaching students how to write a topic sentence. I have found that having an anchor chart with sentence starters for students to refer to is super helpful. I like to create the chart in front of the students. It might look something like this: Once the chart is completed…

Do you teach opinion writing in your classroom? Here is a list of 19 books that you can use to introduce opinion writing, teach students to write an opinion statement or even learn to supply reasons when writing opinions. The books range from primary grades through upper grades and give students a fun opportunity to engage with a variety of ways of writing opinions.