Opinion Writing Prompts with Sentence Starters and Rubric for 3rd 4th 5th

Engage your 3rd 4th & 5th grade opinion writers with 16 opinion writing prompts that include an anchor chart, opinion writing sentence starters, graphic organizers, writing paper, a helpful opinion writing checklist, and easy to follow lesson plans for you, the educator.

Great for struggling writers as it includes scaffolded graphic organizers with sentence starter options.

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Teach your students how to effectively persuade the reader while engaging them with topics they are passionate about!

• I have added lesson plans in this updated version to best support your students
• I have also added more resources for differentiation with special education and ELL students.
• I have provided discussion cards with prompts so students can improve their oral communication and formulate their thoughts through group or partner discussions before starting the writing process.

THIS RESOURCE IS DIGITAL (GOOGLE SLIDES)TO ASSIGN IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM AND INCLUDES A PDF FOR PRINTING.

Included in this unit:

• Two options for all resources:

ONLINE VERSION IN GOOGLE SLIDES, READY TO ASSIGN IN GOOGLE
CLASSROOM AND PDF VERSION FOR PRINTING

• Lesson Plan Ideas to guide instruction
• Anchor Chart (Five Parts to a Letter)
• Graphic Organizer (2 options)

One broken down into parts of a persuasive letter

The other same as above but with 2 choices of sentence starters for each
part

• Persuasive/Opinion Sentence Starters (Broken down into Beginning, Middle and End)
• Persuasive/Opion Letter Writing Prompts
• Task Cards for Oral Discussions

Each task card relates to prompts above

Three blank cards are provided for you to add your own prompts.

• Stationery (Online and Printable Copy)
• Sample Persuasive Letter
• Persuasive Letter Writing Rubric

How can I use this resource:

• For morning work
• Include in a task list or add to a writing literacy center
• Small group
• Writing homework
• For Struggling Writers
• Writing Assessment

Students can choose from 15 different prompts while deciding who the reader will be: The teacher, a parent, a friend or a business (connected to the prompt)

This is sure to engage your students in the writing process, while learning how to write a letter based on the targeted reader. I sincerely hope that letter writing is not a dying genre!!

Technology Requirements

• Access to the internet and a Google Account
• Google Classroom for sharing Google Slides and Google Forms documents to your students
• Google Slides is in view only, make a copy and share out all or a portion of the presentation to your students
• For Google Forms, you will be asked to make a copy. All quizzes for the reading passages are in Google Forms

Don't have Google Account

• Simply print the PDF Version

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