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📖 3rd Grade · ELASL.3.4Unit 6: Opinion writing

Debate day

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🎯 Objective: Students present opinions in a friendly debate.

Lesson outline

  1. Teach debate rules and turn-taking.
  2. Practice with a timer.
  3. Friendly debate.
  4. Exit: reflect on the best argument you heard.

Lesson 6 of 6 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

SL.3.4

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 3 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Introduce a topic, state an opinion, give reasons with linking words and a conclusion

✅ 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

⏱️ Countdown timer📚 All 3rd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Opinion writing”

  1. Opinion vs fact
  2. Planning reasons
  3. Introductions
  4. Linking words
  5. Conclusion
  6. Debate day

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