Kindergarten Writers Workshop: Opinion Writing and Persuasive Writing Unit

Description

Kindergarten Opinion Writing Unit and Persuasive Writing Unit // This unit will teach your students to write about their opinion, give 2 or more supporting reasons, write to persuade, and to write a persuasive letter. This unit is longer than any of my other writer’s workshop units because students are learning two different types of writing. However, I combined them because persuasive writing builds off of opinion writing. You can easily break this into two units if needed.

Find the year-long bundle here: Kindergarten Writer’s Workshop for the Year

Lessons:

1. What is an opinion?
2. My opinion
3. Fact vs. opinion
4. Because
5. Supporting reasons
6. Giving 2 reasons
7. My favorite color
8. Sentence starters
9. Using the word wall
10. Spacing for our readers
11. Sounds in words
12. Sharing our opinions
13. Writing to persuade
14. Sentence starters
15. Persuasive words
16. Persuasive pictures
17. Persuading characters
18. Please
19. Persuasive letters
20. Drafting letters
21. Publishing letters
22. Why do we persuade?
23. Writing a persuasive piece (draft)
24. Editing our piece
25. Author Celebration

What’s Included:

• Lessons Plans for 25 Days
• Anchor Chart Pieces
• Posters
• Writing Paper
• Editing Checklist
• Turn and Talk Procedures
• Conferring Notes
• Rubric
• Editable Rubric

Mentor Texts (not included):

• “In My Opinion” by Deb Bird
• “Red is Best” by Kathy Stinson
• “Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay up Late” by Mo Willems
• “The Pigeon Needs a Bath” by Mo Willems
• “Can I Be Your Dog?” by Troy Cummings
• “I Wanna New Room” by Karen Kaufman Orloff
• “I Wanna Iguana” by Karen Kaufman Orloff