Publisher's Synopsis
Covers the New Standards of Learning Introduced in 2017!
These engaging writing activities will introduce and develop essential opinion writing skills.
This workbook contains 50 guided 2-page exercises where students decide on the best and worst features of a person, place, event, activity, or situation.
Each activity asks students to list three positive and three negative aspects of the given topic. Students then choose the best and the worst aspect and write a short paragraph explaining the choice.
Each topic also includes a full-length writing task where students use the three good points or the three bad points as supporting ideas for a complete opinion piece.
Key Benefits- Introduces and develops strong persuasive writing skills
- Simple, straightforward, and engaging activities give students ongoing practice
- Students have extensive practice brainstorming and listing reasons and supporting ideas
- Encourages students to produce well-organized full-length opinion pieces
- Includes full-length writing tasks for opinion pieces, essays, letters, articles, and flyers
- Format allows for review and feedback as the student progresses
- Encourages critical thinking by having students think of pros and cons for a wide range of topics Develops the Opinion Writing Skills Listed in the 2017 Standards of Learning
- Using prewriting strategies
- Introducing and developing a topic
- Expressing an opinion about a topic
- Clearly stating a position
- Using reasons to support an opinion
- Organizing writing to convey a central idea
- Understanding and using suitable patterns of organization
- Writing clear topic sentences
- Using details and examples to support ideas
