What's Your Opinion

Give the students a few statements such as, "The grass is green."  "Green is the best color." "The sky is clear and blue on a spring day."  "Blue makes everyone feel happy." Ask them which of these statements we can prove. They should answer, "The grass is green and the sky is clear and blue on a spring day." Tell them these are called facts because there is evidence you can use to prove the statement. Then tell them the opposite would be an opinion.  Opinions will be our topic for the lesson.

Next, write the words best and feel. Tell them these words help prove the statements are opinions because it tells what someone thinks about a topic.

Tell the students they are going to play a game. The game is called "What Is Your Opinion?"  Open the Google Slides presentation. The second slide has the directions. Determine with your class where the front and back of the room will be. Go through each slide and let them decide if they like or dislike the item pictured. At the end of the slides, have the students go back through each one giving an oral opinion statement. Help them focus on words in their statements that show feeling about the topic. Display opinion words and phrases on the interactive whiteboard to help them with sentence starters.

Finally, have the students write an opinion sentence about one of the pictures with at least one reason why they feel this way. For example, "The best food ever is pizza. Pizza is the best because it is cheesy, warm, and delicious when I bite into it." Have some volunteers share their written statements and all students turn them into the teacher for review and editing.