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📖 1st Grade · ELAW.1.5Unit 9: Opinion writing

Share and celebrate

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🎯 Objective: Students revise with feedback and share their writing.

Lesson outline

  1. Glow and grow feedback in pairs.
  2. Revise one thing.
  3. Author’s chair.
  4. Exit: one revision you made.

Lesson 5 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

W.1.5

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Introduce a topic, state an opinion, give a reason and a closing

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 1st Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Opinion writing”

  1. Opinions everywhere
  2. Planning an opinion piece
  3. Writing reasons
  4. Closing sentence
  5. Share and celebrate

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