Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- An opinion piece is focused on a topic and provides a reason for the opinion that was gathered from a source.
- An opinion piece should end with a sense of closure.
Skills
Students are able to:
With prompting and support,
With prompting and support,
- Write an opinion piece with at least one supporting reason.
- Use sources to find a support reason for an opinion.
- End the writing piece by providing a sense of closure.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Opinion writing requires research, provides reasons for the stated opinion, and ends with a sense of closure.
Vocabulary
- Opinion
- Topic
- Supporting reason
- Source
- Sense of closure
- Prompting
- Support
