Subject: ELA (English Language Arts)
Lesson Length: 45 mins
Topic: Opinion Writing: Organizing Thoughts
Grade Level: 5
Objective: Persuasion
Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1
Brief Description: Students will create a comic expressing an opinion with reasons to support the opinion.
Know Before You Start: Students will need some background knowledge of opinion writing. This lesson is helpful in giving students practice organizing their thoughts for an opinion writing piece.
Hook: Read and discuss the sample comic.
- What opinion is being presented?
- What reasons support this opinion?
- What other reasons could have been given?
- How was the comic organized to help the reader understand the point of view?
Activity: Using the sample comic as a guide, students will create their own 5 panel comic to express and support an opinion.
- Have students brainstorm topics in which they have a strong opinion. Examples: favorite foods, school uniforms should not be mandatory, Tom Brady is the best quarterback of all time, etc.
- Panel #1: State the opinion
- Panels #2-4: Reasons in support of the opinion
- Panel #5: Summary of the opinion
Closure:
- Share the opinion comics via a Gallery walk or by projecting them for the whole class to view.
- Discuss how strong reasons help others consider varying points of view on topics.
Differentiation:
- Print example comic for students to take notes.
- Provide sentence frames.
- Utilize graphic organizer for students to organize ideas.
- Allow students to use speech-to-text feature when necessary.
Resources: Comic to print or display: Comic 1.
