4th & 5th Grade Paired Passages with Opinion Writing Prompt on Natural Disasters
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Use these paired passages about Natural Disasters with a highly engaging writing prompt to keep students on task during your dreaded writing block! Students will read the two sources and the writing prompt, plan out their essay, and write a four- or five-paragraph essay about their opinion on the topic. Opinion writing prompts using articles are the best way for students to practice writing skills.
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Use these paired passages about Natural Disasters with a highly engaging writing prompt to keep students on task during your dreaded writing block! Students will read the two sources and the writing prompt, plan out their essay, and write a four- or five-paragraph essay about their opinion on the topic. Opinion writing prompts using articles are the best way for students to practice writing skills.
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This Paired Passages Opinion Writing Prompt Includes:
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Text Source #1
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Text Source #2
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Writing Prompt: Which type of natural disaster is worse: tornadoes or earthquakes?
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Planning Sheets
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Writing Paper
Spark a love of writing with this high-interest writing prompt. A great way to meet multiple standards with one activity.Â
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Standards:
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Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. -CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1
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Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. -CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1
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Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. -CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.9
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Ideas for Use:
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Individual Writing Practice
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Whole Group Instruction
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Partner Practice
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Substitute Plans
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Send Home as Practice
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ELA Work Stations or Centers
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Assessment
I am the author of each text, I just used different author names so students could practice citing different names.
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*This was designed to be perfect practice for state writing tests! Directly aligned with Florida’s FSA format, but probably similar to your state, too!
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Kyonel R. –
My students were extremely engaged in the writing process because they could relate to one of the disasters. The sources had awesome information which made it simple for my students to find the evidence they wanted to use for their essay. This was a great resource to use to build confidence in writing an essay!
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Gabrielle Vida –
Great prompt for my third and fourth grade combo class. My students enjoyed the passages and it was a great way to review these writing skills!
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Scrappy Teaching in FL –
Worked great as a companion writing activity to what we were doing in science class.
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Fifth-grade Crew –
Great resource for my fifth-grade students. Thank you!
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Kristi B. –
This is a great resource! Easy to use with little prep work.
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Angela C. –
These are great article for the students to use while learning to write an opinion piece.
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Katherine B. –
Great resource to use with my fifth grade resource room students.
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It’s All Teachy in 5th –
We used this for independent work time and my kids were really into it!
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Michaela Q. –
love the set up of this paired passage that mimics state testing
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Jessica D. –
This was exactly what I was looking for to supplement my writing curriculum! I loved the paired passages, the text was rigorous and engaging to my students. I have bought a few of these and then realized I should have bought the bundle. Thank you!!
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Brittany Moyle –
This was a wonderful resource that I used in my classroom.
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