INDIANA TEST PREP Writing Opinion Pieces Daily Practice Grade 3: Guided Persuasive Writing Activities

By I. Hawas

These engaging writing activities will introduce and develop essential persuasive 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 Persuasive Writing Skills Listed in the Indiana Academic Standards
- Forming and clearly stating an opinion
- Brainstorming reasons and selecting the strongest reasons
- Supporting a point of view with reasons
- Using details and examples to support ideas
- Producing focused and organized opinion pieces
- Structuring opinion pieces based on supporting ideas

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1728978912
• ISBN13: 9781728978918
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.0" x 10.0"