Subject: ELA (English Language Arts)
Lesson Length: 45 mins
Topic: Opinion Writing: Organizing Thoughts
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 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.
Closure:
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Share the opinion comics via a gallery walk or by projecting them for the whole class to view.
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Discuss how strong reasons help others consider varying points of view on topics.
Differentiation:
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Print the sample comic for students to take notes.
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Provide sentence frames.
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Utilize a graphic organizer for students to organize ideas.
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Allow students to use speech-to-text feature when necessary.
Resources:
- Comic to print or display: Comic.
Suggested Content Pack(s):
Around the Home
National Parks
Suburban Life
