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Opinion Writing in Pre-K and Primary:
Introducing BECAUSE
Jean WolphLouisville Writing Project
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Writing Reading Argument MINI-UNITEmphasis
# of Lessons
ARGUMENT SKILLS
PRODUCT ELEMENTS OF ARGUMENT CLOSE READING
STRATEGIESRESPONSE TO
READINGS TOPICS
Draft, Feedback, Revise, Reflect Close reading strategies
Writing & talking to develop knowledge on
topic or issue
Backing up an opinion
3 Lessons
Entering Skills:• Understandi
ng the difference between fact and opinion
Foundational Skills: • Generating
reasons to justify an opinion
Product: Sentence produced through drawing and/or writing
Using a reason to explain why
Listening to Read-aloud, reading pictures and chiming in
Scaffolded writing:
I like ___ because
___.
Or
I don’t like _____
because ____.
I like __ because
1 shared Reading
Mini-Unit Overview
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Writing Standards Emphasized in the
Mini-Unit
• Write opinion pieces in which students state an
opinion (giving reasons).
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One-Day Mini-Unit
• Read aloud the poem, “Things I Like,” helping students join in using the picture cues.
• Model the addition of a reason. Return to some (or all) of the slides and talk about why people do or don’t like these things.
• Give students a page with sentence stem and ask them to draw and/or write what they like and why (or don’t like and why).
Mini-Unit Instructional Sequence
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Inquiry Question:
What do you like?Why?
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Exploring Our Opinions
While we read a poem together, let’s listen for what the writer likes.
Do you like any of these things? A little later, we’ll talk about what we like and why we like these things.
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Things I Like
I like…
ice cream,
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funny dreams,
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dusty moonbeams.
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I don’t like…
brain freezes,
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multiple sneezes,
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scabs on knees-es.
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I like…
friendly dogs,
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ants on logs,
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morning fogs.
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I don’t like…
mean looks,
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polluted brooks,
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or mistreated books.
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Best of all, I like
a river view,
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a sky of blue,
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friends like you.
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What do you like?
Do you like these things, too?
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Introducing our new friend BECAUSE!
BECAUSE helps us tell WHY.
I like ice cream because it melts on my tongue.
Who else likes ice cream?
Why do you like it?
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We like ice creambecause _____.
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We don’t like brain freezes because _____.
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We like friendly dogs because ____________.
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We don’t like friendly dogs because ____________.
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We don’t like mean looks because _______________________.
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We like a sky of blue because ________________.
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We like friends because ____________________.
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Let’s Draw and Write Our Opinions!
I like ___________________ because ___________.
I don’t like _______________because __________.
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I like ____________________________________
because __________________________________.
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I don’t like ________________________________
because __________________________________.