Opinion Unit for Kindergarten Writing

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!)
• 5 anchor charts (fact/opinion, what is your opinion, opinion sentence starters, opinion checklist
• 7 worksheets to practice opinion writing (3 versions of each for differentiation)
• 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 

How to Use:

• Refer to daily lesson plans which contains materials and mentor texts that you will need.