This is a four week Opinion Unit to help kindergarten writers become confident writing persuasive books about their thoughts and feelings. Kindergarten students will learn the difference between fact/opinion, pick a topic they have a strong opinion in, and list reasons why they have their opinion.
This unit goes through the book making process slowly by allowing students to complete at their own pace. Students will be met where they are developmentally with 3 different book options and 2 different individual sheets.
What's included:
- Mentor text suggestions
- Outline of 4 week unit
- 19 scripted lesson plans (print and go!)
- EDITABLE DAILY SLIDES IN POWERPOINT...google coming soon
- 11 anchor charts (fact/opinion, what is your opinion, opinion sentence starters, opinion checklist, writing feedback, coloring checklist, sentence checklist, how to stretch out a word, using a sentence stem, how to write a sentence)
- 30 worksheets to practice opinion writing (3 versions of each for differentiation)
- 2 mini books with prompts (foods I like and favorite things)
- 2 options for a rough draft
- I Like Map
- 7 differentiated student book options to meet the needs of all learners
- Pre and post parent letter
- I am an author crown
- Editable rubric
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT MY OPINION UNIT? Here is a blog post explaining how I teach it
How to Use:
- Refer to daily lesson plans which contains materials and mentor texts that you will need.
Want Amanda's new opinion mentor text? Get it here in paperback on Amazon or hardback on her website. This is a physical book and is not included in the digital download. You can absolutely teach this unit without the mentor text, but having a clear, supporting text makes introducing a new skill even easier.
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