Opinion Writing

 

We just finished up our writing unit on opinion writing.  When we begin talking about what it means to have an opinion, we use the idea of school uniforms as an example.  We talk about the pros and cons of wearing school uniforms.  This class mostly said they were against school uniforms, but some of them had the opinion that uniforms could be useful.

 We started with writing about what we thought would be the best pet or not the best pet.  The students brainstormed their ideas on a graphic organizer and then used these ideas to write 2 paragraphs with a topic sentence and a concluding sentence.  This writing went into a class book.

We began the unit with reading these two books.  In these books, the characters think they have an idea of a great pet.  We discussed our opinions and compared them to the characters' opinions.

We followed this up by writing about the best thing about ourselves.  I told the students that really the best thing about each of them is what is inside of them- that they are kind, and helpful, and smart.  For this project though, they had to pick something on the outside that we could take a picture of.  I love how each of these writing projects turn out so unique.