At a Glance:
| Grades: | 5 |
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| Subject: | ELA (English Language Arts) |
| Topic: | Opinion Writing |
| Lesson Length: | 45 mins |
Standards / Framework:
What will students learn in this activity?
Students will create a comic expressing an opinion with reasons to support the opinion.
What should students know before this activity?
Students will need some knowledge of opinion writing. This lesson is helpful in giving students practice organizing their thoughts for an opinion writing piece.
How can teachers introduce this lesson?
- 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?
What will students do?
- Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create a five-panel comic to express and support an opinion.
- Have students brainstorm topics in which they have a strong opinion. They may have strong opinions about things such as favorite foods, mandatory school uniforms, or the best quarterback of all time.
- Panel 1: State the opinion.
- Panels 2-4: Provide reasons in support of the opinion.
- Panel 5: Summarize the opinion.
How can teachers wrap up the lesson?
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Share the opinion comics via a gallery walk or by projecting them for the class to view.
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Discuss how strong reasons help others consider varying points of view on topics.
How can teachers differentiate this activity?
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
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Print the sample comic for students to take notes.
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Provide sentence frames.
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Use a graphic organizer for students to organize ideas.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
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