Writer’s Workshop Mini Opinion Writing Unit, Grade 2-3

     This writer’s workshop model supplemental writing unit is designed to develop  opinion writing skills  for grades 2-3. There are 10 mini-lessons in this Opinion Writing  Unit that build strong opinion writing  skills the prerequisite to writing to persuade. 

         This unit includes two Google slides documents. There is 35  teaching slides and  20 pages  in the digital student edition writing notebook  with a  detailed writing activity for each lesson in the unit. Each lesson includes an animated mentor writing piece for instruction and the teaching part of the lesson. Each lesson also includes a rather than writing prompt for students who are struggling with finding a topic.

        The writing lessons in the  unit start out with students creating a My favorite Things list for favorite foods, movies, activities, and books. The  first two lessons guide students  to learn, plan, organizing, and write their opinion writing. In lessons 3-4  the students learn to add buddy bonus sentences to their reasons and develop their examples and paragraphs. In lessons 5-6 students develop an introduction by hooking the reader with a question and their opinion.The Last two lessons help students develop their conclusion and offer advice to their reader with a call to action. 

         All mini units include the student notebook  that can be sent through the Google Classroom as one writing notebook or you can send each lesson separate. I share out the workbook to my students and add a new lesson each week to their existing notebooks.  The unit is broken down into a one month unit meeting two to three times a week. A total of 10 lessons. 

The product will include a PDF file with two google links that will ask you to make your own copy and rename your files. One Teacher edition and the other a student workbook. 

 Optional Class Schedule 

The classes will include the following concepts each week listed below, Our classes

 will be  all about Opinion Writing! 

Week 1 

         Day 1,  Introduction to Opinion Writing.  Generating Opinion Topics & Writing Your Opinion

         Day 2,  Writing All About your favorite Foods

Week 2

         Day 1,Writing About Your Favorite Movies- Adding Bonus Buddy Sentences

         Day 2,  Continue writing about your favorite movies  

Week 3

         Day 1,Writing About Your Favorite Activity/Game- Hooking Your Reader

         Day 2,  Continue writing about your favorite activities

Week 4

       Day 1,Writing About Your Favorite Book conclusions- call to action 

       Day 2,  Continue writing about your favorite books