While the kids in my afternoon class are working on their letters back to their pen pals, my morning class is moving forward on their opinion essays, at least, until they get their letters from their pen pals. Last week, we studied the introductions of essays by looking at mentor texts and learning from them. We learned that authors start essays with a question, a description, or a strong statement. We took our ideas for our opinion essays and came up with three different introductions for them. We used this paper to help. Here is my example that I modeled for the students. Students then chose their favorite one that they wrote and copied it into their notebooks to start their essays! If you think of it, ask your child what topic he/she chose to write about. Ask what two reasons are he/she using to support the claim being made. See if your child has any stories from his/her life that can be used to make these reasons even stronger.
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