FLORIDA TEST PREP Writing Opinion Pieces Daily Practice Grade 4: Guided Persuasive Writing Activities

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 Argumentative Writing Skills Listed in the B.E.S.T. English Language Arts 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