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Opinion Writing Unit | Analyze Two Texts on the Same Topic | Graphic Organizers

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Students were able to meet our state standards and use informational text to support an opinion. I received well written essays!
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This resource is a comprehensive opinion writing unit with paired texts on a real-world scenario. This opinion writing unit is perfect for upper elementary, grades 3-5 because it is designed to help students prepare for state writing tests. With graphic organizers and a step-by-step process, this resource will get your students writing and including quotes from the text in no time!

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"This pack lasted me a WHOLE week of ELA instruction in 5th grade! It was challenging and a perfect supplement to our test prep coursework!! Thank you so much for making it! I recommend it to all upper elementary school teachers!! A++++"

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Prompt: Should School Lunches be Healthier?

This resource guides students through integrating knowledge and learning from multiple sources to write a well-developed opinion essay.

Within this unit, the students are taken step-by-step through the writing process.

  • The students begin with reading three different sources on a common topic. The pages have space in the margins to write notes.
  • Next, they answer constructed response questions to start forming their opinions.
  • Finally, a set of graphic organizers walk students through setting up a strong, well-developed opinion essay.
  • Lined paper is also included for them to publish their essays on.

This resource meets multiple CCSS and is well aligned with state testing.

This upper elementary writing unit contains everything you need to develop critical thinking and create strong writers.

This unit is available as both a printable unit and as a digital unit using Google Slides. Google Slides can be downloaded as a PowerPoint for Microsoft users.

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Last updated Jun 5th, 2021
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to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.

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