Providing Evidence to Support Opinions

Use Text Evidence to Support an Opinion

Standard and Objective

• Provide reasons that

  are supported by

  facts and details.

  W.4.1.b

• I will be able to review the text to draw evidence to support my opinion

Poll

How comfortable do you feel in forming your own opinion about a text?

• I am so comfortable, I know to go back to the text to draw evidence.

• I am somewhat comfortable, I sometimes forget the text gives us the evidence.

• I am still confused, I forget to look back at the text for evidence.

Multiple Choice

What is an opinion?

• A correct answer

• A belief or judgement

• A piece of writing

Text Evidence To Support An Opinion

• An opinion is a belief or judgment, so two people may read the same text and form a different opinion about it.

• As long as writers draw evidence from the text to support their opinions, different opinions can be valid or reasonable.

Multiple Choice

Why do we need evidence when writing an opinion?

• To support the text and have details about the characters

• To convince the readers that our opinion is reasonable

• To convince the readers to read the text

Characteristics of Opinion Writing

• Clearly states the writer’s opinion, or what he or she thinks.

• Gives a reason why the writer thinks that way.

• Includes a specific detail, fact, piece of dialogue or other quote from the

  text to show what made the writer think that way.

• Includes one or more pieces of supporting evidence from the text.

• Tells howthe given evidence supports the reason and/or opinion.

Open Ended

What does an opinion state?

Write two complete sentence

Asynchronous Assignment

Reader's and Writers Journal

Complete Pg. 235 and Pg.236

Use the text for support