SEMESTER B:
Opinion Writing Process
Unit 6 Lesson 4 (Draft) & Unit 8 Lesson 5 (Final)
Choose a topic that affects the lives of kids like you. Then decide how you feel about that topic and write your opinion text to tell other people how you feel.
If you need help coming up with a topic, you can choose from this list:
What is an opinion?
An opinion is what you think or believe about a topic. This is not a fact, rather a belief.
Your opinion writing will allow you to share your feelings about a topic of your choice. You will need to give reasons as to why you feel this way as well as details and examples that help to explain each reason.
Organizing your Opinion Writing:
For your introduction, remember to introduce your topic in a way that will interest the reader- be creative! State your opinion clearly using pronouns like “I” and “my.” Give readers an idea of why you have this opinion to get them interested in reading the rest of your writing.
Strong Reasons:
A strong reason helps readers understand the opinion, can be supported by details like facts and examples, and is interesting to readers.
Make sure your writing has two strong reasons with supporting details.
Conclusion:
Remember that the conclusion of an opinion text:
If you need help coming up with a topic, you can choose from this list:
- Should kids go to school during the summer?
- How old should you be to get a cell phone?
- What time should third graders have to go to bed?
- How much homework should kids have?
- What is the best way to help your community?
- Should kids be able to vote in presidential elections?
What is an opinion?
An opinion is what you think or believe about a topic. This is not a fact, rather a belief.
Your opinion writing will allow you to share your feelings about a topic of your choice. You will need to give reasons as to why you feel this way as well as details and examples that help to explain each reason.
Organizing your Opinion Writing:
- Tell opinion at the beginning
- Give reasons for the opinion in the middle
- Restate opinion again at the end
- Identify your topic
- Tell your opinion
- Explain your opinion
For your introduction, remember to introduce your topic in a way that will interest the reader- be creative! State your opinion clearly using pronouns like “I” and “my.” Give readers an idea of why you have this opinion to get them interested in reading the rest of your writing.
Strong Reasons:
A strong reason helps readers understand the opinion, can be supported by details like facts and examples, and is interesting to readers.
Make sure your writing has two strong reasons with supporting details.
Conclusion:
Remember that the conclusion of an opinion text:
- Restates your opinion in a new way.
- Sums up your reasons.
- Leaves your readers with a final thought that tells why they should agree with you.
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Research Writing Process
Unit 14 Lesson 5 (Draft) & Unit 16 Lesson 5 (Final)
To write a research report, you find information about a topic using different sources. As you read, you will look for facts and details that will tell about the main ideas you want to write about. Each main idea tells about the topic. Your research report will include facts, details and definitions about the main idea.
To write your research report, you will gather information from sources, take notes, and use the information you gathered to draft your report. You should have a source for each fact, detail and definition. Make sure to paraphrase the information from your sources. When you paraphrase, you think about the author's ideas, what they mean and then write the ideas in a different way.
Make sure that your research report includes:
To write your research report, you will gather information from sources, take notes, and use the information you gathered to draft your report. You should have a source for each fact, detail and definition. Make sure to paraphrase the information from your sources. When you paraphrase, you think about the author's ideas, what they mean and then write the ideas in a different way.
Make sure that your research report includes:
- An introduction that identifies the topic, previews the main ideas, and includes a hook that sparks the reader's interest
- Main ideas that are clearly stated and relate to your topic
- Facts, definitions, and details from your research that supports your main ideas
- A conclusion that clearly sums up the ideas and research that ends with an interesting thought
- A works cited page that lists the sources used to complete your research
- Visual element(s) that support your main ideas.
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