Opinion Writing

Opinion Writing

Sharing your Opinion and supporting your ideas with facts.

Opinion

Meaning: A statement made about a person's beliefs or thoughts.

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An opinion is

• someone's thoughts about something

• real facts

• an onion

First Step:

Decide your Opinion!

This will be your topic sentence. The topic sentences tells the reader what they will be reading about.

You can start with "I believe" or "In my opinion."

Use the words from the writing prompt to create your first sentence.

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A Topic sentence is

• tropical sentences

• A sentence that tells what the topic of the writing is.

Should dogs be allowed at school?

• My Opinion: YES

• My Topic Sentence: I believe that dogs should be allowed at school.

Open Ended

Use this prompt to write a topic sentence.

Should there be a waterslide at school?

Open Ended

Use this prompt to write a topic sentence.

Which is better pancakes or waffles?

(remember you can start with "I believe that" or "In my opinion")

Open Ended

Use this prompt to write a topic sentence.

What is the best dessert?

Next Step

• Now that we have decided our opinion, and written our topic sentence we need to give our reader facts to support what we say!

• You will need to have at least 3 facts to support your opinion.

Now add facts!

• My Topic Sentence: I believe that dogs should be allowed at school.

• now I need 3 facts that will support my thoughts

• 1) Dogs make people happy.

• 2) They can help us calm down.

• 3) They could be a reading buddy!

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What pieces does your Opinion writing need so far?

• Topic Sentence

• at least 3 facts

• a ton of big words

• paper

Combining your Topic sentence and your Facts

• When we write our facts to support our opinion we will introduce them with transition words.

• We will be using: Frist, Second, Third, and Finally

• They will always be the first word in a sentence and will ALWAYS have a comma right after them.

Transition words

• are used to introduce a new idea

• keep our writing clear

• always have a comma after them!

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What transition words will we be using in our opinion writing?

• First

• Second

• Third

• Finally

• Once upon a time

Let's put it together

I believe that dogs should be allowed at school. First, they can help all of us by making us happy with their cuteness. Second, they can help us calm down when we're upset. Third, a dog can be a great buddy to read to, they are always happy to listen. In Conclusion...

In conclusion,

• Our last transition words

• These words will be used to write our CONCLUSION

• A conclusion is a sentence that wraps everything up.

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What is a conclusion?

• a concusion

• A final sentence that wraps up the writing

• a topic sentence

• a sentence that describes a character

Conclusion Sentences

Start with In conclusion,

Start with the transition word (or phrase),

restate your opinion, give one last positive statement.

In conclusion, dogs should be in classrooms because it will be good for every person, and the dog.

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A _______ sentence is the first sentence we write to tell our opinion.

• topic

• conclusion

• facts

Fill in the Blank

At least ____ facts are needed to support your opinion.

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Transition words

• are helpful to keep writing clear

• always have a comma after

• are always at the start of a sentence

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A Conclusion Sentence:

• restates our opinion

• uses an ending transition word (or phrase)

• gives one last positive thought in support of your opinion.

Multiple Choice

During this lesson I learned

• reading.

• math.

• how to write stories.

• how to write about and support my opinions.

Poll

What are you?