Tell students the first step to writing an opinion essay is to state their opinion. Tell them they have been practicing this. Call on a student to share their personal opinion starter. Use their sentence starter to model writing the first sentence on the board. Tell the students the next step is to use facts and reasons to support their opinions. Explain to students that they are required to write two supporting sentences. Post the cat poster for students to refer to. Call on two students to pick a fact to use. Model how to use the sentence starters. Now it will be the students turn to write supporting sentences. Call on two more students to pick facts. Have them work with a partner to write supporting sentences. Call on partnerships to share their examples. Repeat this process several times eventually have students write sentences on their own. Ask students, is the best way to support your opinions?” “What Emphasize that it is important to use facts to support your opinion not just, it is fun, cute, “Because awesome, cool…..” Have students pick favorite first and second sentence starters to write on yellow sentence strips. Have them decorate it. 2. Write an opinion essay with a beginning sentence and reasons: Have students lay out green sentence strip and two yellow sentence strips. Use the Oreo graphic organizer and show students where to put the beginning sentence and reasons. Instruct students to use their green sentence strip to write a beginning sentence about cats. Guide them in using the next two yellow sentence strips to write the next two sentences. 3. Cat Have students work on the cat craft. As they work go around and have each student read their sentences to you and look for capitals at the beginning. Then give them a paper to write a final draft. After students finish do a directed drawing of a cat. Have students include what they have learned about cats in the drawing and label them. Collect all of your students draft and directed drawing to compile them into a class book. Display the class book and allow students to read it during independent reading time.
Tell students the first step to writing an opinion essay is to state their opinion. Tell them they have been practicing this. Call on a student to share their personal opinion starter. Use their sentence starter to model writing the first sentence on the board. Tell the students the next step is to use facts and reasons to support their opinions. Explain to students that they are required to write two supporting sentences. Post the cat poster for students to refer to. Call on two students to pick a fact to use. Model how to use the sentence starters. Now it will be the students turn to write supporting sentences. Call on two more students to pick facts. Have them work with a partner to write supporting sentences. Call on partnerships to share their examples. Repeat this process several times eventually have students write sentences on their own. Ask students, “What is the best way to support your opinions?” Emphasize that it is important to use facts to support your opinion not just, “Because it is fun, cute, awesome, cool…..” Have students pick favorite first and second sentence starters to write on yellow sentence strips. Have them decorate it. 2. Write an opinion essay with a beginning sentence and reasons: Have students lay out green sentence strip and two yellow sentence strips. Use the Oreo graphic organizer and show students where to put the beginning sentence and reasons. Instruct students to use their green sentence strip to write a beginning sentence about cats. Guide them in using the next two yellow sentence strips to write the next two sentences. 3. Cat Have students work on the cat craft. As they work go around and have each student read their sentences to you and look for capitals at the beginning. Then give them a paper to write a final draft. After students finish do a directed drawing of a cat. Have students include what they have learned about cats in the drawing and label them. Collect all of your students draft and directed drawing to compile them into a class book. Display the class book and allow students to read it during independent reading time.
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