This engaging literacy lesson creates a fun opinion writing activity for your First Grade or Second Grade students. Complete with step-by-step instructions, your students will write a short opinion piece on Halloween costumes and then create a craft to accompany this writing — which can make a fun wall display, too!
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This pack includes:
- Instructions/Lesson Plan
- Anchor Chart (in colour and black & white)
- Drafting Sheets - 6 to select from (each with 2 characters to choose between)
- Opinion Writing word list (in colour and black & white)
- 5 Different writing options so you can differentiate the amount of support each of your students requires
- Writing checklist for their final draft
- 12 different Halloween costume characters to craft (2 to a page in black & white)
Comes with US and UK spelling variations.
Halloween Opinion Writing Activity First Grade
ACARA Alignment
English
Grade 1
AC9E1LY06
create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllable words
AC9E1LA07
understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)
AC9E1LA10
understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns
Grade 2
AC9E2LE02
identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences
AC9E2LY06
create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words
File Info
39 pages PDF