4th & 5th Grade Paired Passages with Opinion Writing Prompt on Social Media
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Use these paired passages with a highly engaging writing prompt to keep students engaged during your dreaded writing block! Students will read the two sources about social media and the writing prompt, plan out their essay, and write a four- or five-paragraph essay about their opinion on the topic.
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Use these paired passages with a highly engaging writing prompt to keep students engaged during your dreaded writing block! Students will read the two sources about social media and the writing prompt, plan out their essay, and write a four- or five-paragraph essay about their opinion on the topic.
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This Paired Passages Opinion Writing Prompt Includes:
- Text Source #1
- Text Source #2
- Writing Prompt: Should Students Be Allowed to Use Social Media at School?
- 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!
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Rikki R. –
This was a great resource. It was a little challenging though for my students with a learning disability.
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Angie P. –
Students were highly engaged as the topic is relevant to their lives. This resource provided adequate information to write text-based multi-paragraph opinion pieces.
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Michael L. –
Outstanding resource. This was extremely helpful supplementing my unit.
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Karen C. –
My students are learning to write a Opinion/ Argumentative essay. This resource help them learn to write a strong thesis statement.
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Brooke C. –
My students have enjoyed completing this prompt. The prompt wa engaging for them.
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Caffeinated Teaching in 5th Grade –
This is a good resource but I wish there was more than two articles.
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Vanessa C. –
My students loved writing about this topic and it was completely applicable to their lives today. I was surprised to see what their opinion was on having social media in our classroom!
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Teresa F. –
Excellent resource…. it worked great for us! Thank you!! A+++++
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Tami D. –
The informational texts are well written and my students love the topic
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Brittany D. –
This was great for students to use. It helped them a ton with the concept and they told me they understood much better after using!
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The Brainy Barnes –
This a great resource that engaging. My students are able to work on growing their writing skills over relevant topics. I have used this multiple years.
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Melissa F. –
This resource was great as it appealed to our students. They were very engaged.
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Heidi M. –
This is the second opinion writing task I have used from this teacher. The topic and articles are engaging, and helped students develop their opinion writing skills.
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