Expressing Opinions

Overview

Good readers can exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking. They can also express an opinion and support it with credible evidence. 

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Instructional Strategies

Have students practice expressing their opinions regularly, both orally and in writing. Using prompts, have students "take a stand" in a location in the room or in a line based on their opinion of the prompt. Then ask students to defend their opinion.

Use debate structures to help students practice forming opinions on multiple sides of an argument. 

Have students express their opinion and support it with evidence from a text. Have students identify the author's opinion and support their claim with textual evidence.