Opinion Writing Second Grade

I made my OREO anchor chart! Great for opinion/persuasive writing!

Get your primary students excited about opinion writing with "The Day the Crayons Quit" and this super cute crayon craftivity! Your kiddos are sure to be engaged as they complete this persuasive letter to their favorite color!

Hiddy Ho! Just popping in quick before I start packing for my weekend away to St. Louis! My good college friend is getting married and the hubby is in the wedding. Not to mention, it'll be a college reunion with my 'men'.... I was that girl who had more guy friends and would tag along with my husband (well, then it was my boyfriend's) friends and they graciously accepted me, mostly due to the fact that I'm obsessed with gopher sports and lounging around so I meshed well with them. St. Louis…

Have you read any Mo Willems books? My kids LOVE them!!! He’s clever and uses simple text for easy readers. Seriously, I can’t quit laughing at these books. I used the book “Don…

Hi, friends! We're in the home stretch! Just a few more weeks! Since we just wrapped up our opinion unit, I thought I'd post all about how we used one of our favorite stories to

Are you one of those lucky people who gets this whole week off?? I am jealous. I have the regular three days this week. Wednesday doesn't really involve too much teaching though. We have our annual Turkey Trot. It's basically a field day with different activites at each station. There are relay races and lots of silliness to keep everyone busy. It ends with a 500 yard dash for each of the grade levels. It's lots of fun and parents always come out to help with events and cheer the kids on…

Teach kids how to write an opinion piece in a SIMPLE way that the kids understand! This Opinion Writing unit includes FRAMES, EXAMPLES, POSTERS, and PROMPTS. It is designed to TEACH students how to write an opinion piece STEP BY STEP. The young students need lots of examples and practice before th...

Sweet & Spicy Bacon Wrapped Chicken Tenders - one of the best things we ate last week. Only 4 simple ingredients - chicken, bacon, brown sugar and chili powder. They only take about 5 minutes to make and are ready to eat in under 30 minutes. Sweet and salty in one bite!

Fact-Based Opinion Writing for Groundhog Day: A full lesson to practice opinion writing (persuasive writing) with a Groundhog Day-related focus question.The focus question for this lesson is: "Do groundhogs deserve a holiday named after them?" Eight carefully-selected facts about groundhogs are incl...

FREEBIE! 30 fun Would You Rather scenarios for your kiddos to use to practice Opinion Writing and Graphing!

I love teaching opinion writing! It's a fantastic way to teach and reinforce paragraph writing. Not to mention, it gives my students a voice. Every good writing genre needs a few mentor texts! Have you read these "I Wanna..." books?? They are a MUST for any classroom, not matter what grade level. These books helped us come up with some fantastic opinion writing ideas! Our writing theme was writing opinion letters to our parents in the style of the "I Wanna..." books. We brainstormed what it…

This is a great resource to help with Opinion Writing in your classroom! It goes along perfectly with the First and Second Grade Common Core standards for opinion writing!This resource was updated in January 2019! This unit includes:-standard pages (first, second and third grades)-anchor charts for ...

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Oreo Graphic Organizer. Grade 4. Writing. Standard: 4.W.1 Write opinion pieces on topic or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. Fourth grade students will use this organizer to help them formulate their opinion and ideas. It will provide them with great organizational skills for their pieces.