Writing an Opinion Piece About Understanding
Grade
Grade 5
UNIT
8
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Understanding
In Unit 8, Lesson 3, “Writing an Opinion Piece About Understanding,” students will write an opinion piece in which they introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer's purpose.
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SUGGESTED TIME:
30 minutes
RELATED SUBJECT:
English Language Arts
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Demonstrate comprehension of the word understanding.
- Write an opinion text on understanding, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
- Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer's purpose.
- Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.
- Link opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., consequently, specifically).
- Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.
- Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
- Prohuman Grade 5 Unit 8 Worksheet 3: Writing an Opinion Piece About Understanding
VOCABULARY:.
- Understanding: I seek knowledge and try to learn the truth. I think about other people’s views that might be different from mine.
ELA COMMON CORE STANDARDS MET
CHARACTER AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL (CSED) NATIONAL STANDARDS MET
LESSON PROCEDURE
In the previous lesson, we learned about George Washington Carver, a scientist and inventor. Today, we will write an opinion piece about what you think is the most important way George Washington Carver showed understanding, and what this understanding allowed him to accomplish. An opinion piece does five things.
- Introduces a topic
- States an opinion
- Provides logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.
- Links opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., consequently, specifically).
- Provides a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.
Now each student will write their opinion piece on their worksheet.
NOTE: Collect and keep the worksheet on the following page for the next day’s lesson in which students will share their opinion pieces with a partner.
GRADE 5 UNIT 8 WORKSHEET 3: WRITING AN OPINION PIECE ABOUT UNDERSTANDING
Understanding: I seek knowledge and try to learn the truth. I think about other people’s views that might be different from mine.
ACTIVITY: Write an opinion piece about what you think is the most important way that George Washington Carver showed understanding and what this understanding allowed him to accomplish.
Topic:
Opinion:
Reason 1:
Reason 2:
Reason 3:
Closure:
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