Opinion writing rubric

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Opinion writing can be very challenging for students, especially when they have little experience with this genre of writing. I often find that my students have a difficult time with one, or ALL of the following: Stating their opinions. Generating strong reasons to support their opinions. Using details and examples to support their reasons. This year when I introduced opinion writing, I decided to take more of a collaborative approach, in which ALL students were able to contribute ideas, and…

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.1 Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.

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Aloha fabulous friends! I am finally sitting down to share some new items from a workshop that I recently attended. Has your district/state adopted the Common Core standards? I know some states do not follow them, but we began our journey about 3 years ago. We didn't have much training and we were kind of thrown into it! I have a feeling many of you are in the same boat. As in many new educational undertakings we are given a task and we do our best to go with it. We don't have the materials…