Description
Do your students groan when it’s time for writing? Try these interesting opinion and informational paired passages with writing prompts to get your students excited about writing! This print-and-go resource includes 6 opinion and informational writing prompts that will help your students practice their writing skills.
Each resource includes a set of paired passages, writing prompt, planning page, and writing pages. This will allow you to stop spending hours searching for high-quality writing materials. Your students will truly enjoy reading and writing about these exciting topics.
Opinion Prompts:
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Should electric cars be required?
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Should parents monitor their child’s cell phone?
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Should students be allowed to use social media at school?
Informational Prompts:
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How do adaptations help plants and animals survive?
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What is renewable energy and why is it useful?
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How have women contributed to science?
Included in this Writing Essays Bundle:
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3 Opinion Writing Prompts
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3 Informational Writing Prompts
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2 Text Sources for Each Prompt
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Planning Sheets
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Writing Paper
Standards Covered:
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Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
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Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
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Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
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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Assessments
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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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