First Grade Opinion Writing Lessons {1st Grade Writing Workshop Unit 4}

Opinion and persuasive writing lessons, writing rubrics, printable writing paper, posters and visuals, graphic organizers for planning, and more - for first grade students! This 4 week unit will help you teach your first grade students to write opinion and persuasive pieces!As part of this unit, students will create opinion pieces about their favorite things, a class book about the best places in their community, and book reviews/recommendations.These lessons are designed to be taught toward the middle of the year but can be used anytime you want to teach students how to write opinion pieces. In this unit, students will learn how to: - Plan and write pieces to share their opinion a topic- Give multiple reasons to support their opinion- Write a strong introduction and conclusion to appeal to the reader- Use transition words- Combine sentences with conjunctions- Use adjectives to describe a topic- Revise and edit independently and with a partnerThis unit includes:- 22 detailed miniless