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Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing Broken Down

September 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment

It’s almost Johnny Appleseed Day! 

Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade

If you’re joining in on celebrating this wonderful historical figure and are also teaching opinion writing, then this file will help you and your students.
Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade
Print off and bundle as student booklets.
Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade
This resource is based on the book; Johnny Appleseed by Reeve Lindbergh (see link below to YouTube reading). 
I have designed this scaffolded writing mini unit with first and second graders in mind.
Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade

This 52 page resource has been made to break down the steps of understanding and writing an opinion.
First of all, your students will learn to identify and provide examples of both facts and opinions.

Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade

Students will discuss purposes for writing an opinion.
Your class will then have opportunities to work with the structure of an opinion.
Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade
 Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade
The three steps of opinion writing; introduction, reasons and conclusion will be dealt with separately prior to writing a fully structured opinion.
Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade
Here’s an example of students learning to write an introduction only.
>>> Please note that the image below is taken from the first edition.  The file has been updated to included easier to read fonts, as seen in the screen capture images in this post. 
Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade
After reading the story about Johnny Appleseed students will put all parts of an opinion together by responding to topics.  
Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade

Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade  Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade

Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade

Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade
The file also includes generic opinion writing templates to write about your own topics. 
Opinion Writing Opinion Writing

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Opinion Writing
I find that requiring students to reflect on their writing based on a criteria already establish when I first introduce a genre helps me teach explicitly. This idea (seen below) should be revisited as you model your opinion writing throughout the unit and when children are working on their writing samples.
I have used an apple rating scale, which children can use to evaluate their writing. This evaluation tool was inspired by my 5 star skills freebie. I like to complete this with each child, one on one.  Students can color the apples accordingly.
Opinion rubric

Students can then publish their opinion writing piece using this blank writing paper (boy and girl image provided).

 Opinion writing
This is an added extra achievement notice (based on Common Core for first and second grade) for students when you have finished the mini-unit.
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Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing Printables for First and Second Grade
Johnny Appleseed Opinion Writing First and Second Grade
You may also like the range of apple themed videos on my YouTube playlist. I have collected videos about apples, apple life cycle, books, poems, songs and craft.  Click here to see more. 

Apples play list via YouTube

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