Opinion Writing Earth Day Activity | Digital Google Slides

This opinion writing Earth Day themed digital resource in Google Sides scaffolds the structural elements of a persuasive /opinion writing essay. The two sample editable texts feature an Earth Day theme.

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New Update

Digital PowerPoint file added. This can be uploaded to your online learning management system.

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Overview of Lesson

✅ Slides 1-9 present information on the structural elements of a persuasive essay. This can be presented to students as a warming-up activity.

✅ As the focus of this lesson is on structure, students will drag and place sentence strips to put together a persuasive essay from start to finish.

✅ Next students will analyze each part of the sample persuasive writing piece for the hook and opinion in the Introduction, reasons and supporting details in the Body, and summary and call of action in the conclusion.

✅ Students will type their responses in pre-made text boxes or drag markers to place against the correct options.

✅ After the analysis of each structural element, students will annotate two sample texts by color-coding the structural elements evident in the texts. These texts are editable so you have the flexibility to change content or spellings.

✅ Finally, students will be given a prompt and a pre-writing graphic planner to document the persuasive structural elements prior to writing. They will then type out their essay referring to the planner and writing checklist.

✅ A teacher’s version of the file with all sample answers is also included in the download.

⚫ This resource is best suited for students in grades 3 and 4. It can also be used with higher ability students in grade 2 or students who are writing challenged in grade 5.

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►► RECOMMENDED USE:

This writing lesson may be split into four mini-lessons. There are two ways to assign a set of slides to your students in Google Slides.

⚫ 1. Make copies of the main resource depending upon how many sets of slides (files) you want to assign as a mini-lesson. Delete the slides that are not needed for a particular lesson (keep the main file open for reference). Re-name each file comprising of a set of slides and then assign each file (mini-lesson) for students to complete.

⚫ 2. You may also choose to copy the slides you need to assign into a new file and then assign that file. Do this for as many sets of slides as you need to separate from the main resource.

⭐ Alternatively, you may also do this mini writing unit in a literacy block comprising approximately 1 hour 20 minutes.

⭐ Recommendation of how I used this resource with my students in download.

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►► EVIDENCE OF LEARNING

→ Once students have completed their writing, they may save their file in a created class folder on the computer, or onto a removable digital device. To do so, students need to access ‘’File>download as’ option and make their selection from the given options. They can also submit their report digitally via generating the ‘share’ link.

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