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5th Grade Opinion Writing Prompt with Passages - Getting Paid for Playing Sports
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5th Grade Opinion Writing Prompt with Passages – Getting Paid for Playing Sports

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Original price was: $4.50.Current price is: $3.50.

Use these paired passages about getting paid for playing a sport 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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Hi, I'm Chloe! I taught 3rd–5th grade math for 11 years, and every resource in this shop was built for real classrooms: low prep, high engagement, and a whole lot of sneaky learning.

Use these paired passages about getting paid for playing a sport 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.
 
 
This Paired Passages Opinion Writing Prompt Includes:
  • Text Source #1
  • Text Source #2
  • Writing Prompt: Should college athletes get paid for playing a sport?
  • Planning Sheets
  • Writing Paper
Spark a love of writing with this high-interest writing prompt.  A great way to meet multiple standards with one activity. 
 
Standards:
  • Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. -CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1
  • 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
  • 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
 
Ideas for Use:
  • Individual Writing Practice
  • Whole Group Instruction
  • Partner Practice
  • Substitute Plans
  • Send Home as Practice
  • ELA Work Stations or Centers
  • Assessment
I am the author of each text, I just used different author names so students could practice citing different names.
 
*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!
 
Copyright © Chloe Campbell
Permission to copy for single classroom use only.
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2 reviews for 5th Grade Opinion Writing Prompt with Passages – Getting Paid for Playing Sports

  1. Fifth-grade Crew –

    Great resource for my fifth-grade students. Thank you!

    (Originally posted on Teachers Pay Teachers)

  2. Sarah M. –

    Well set up

    This was set up like students would get on the SBACs (or state testing.) but was hard for my students to form an opinion and support it. But I did tell my students they might not always get a topic they can relate to or write about easily.

    (Originally posted on Teachers Pay Teachers)

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