5th Grade Opinion Writing Resources

In this thoughtful opinion-writing worksheet, children will describe the season they like best, and why.

Young writers practice crafting thoughtful, compelling paragraphs with this persuasive writing worksheet.

Help students organize their ideas and structure their paragraph responses with this PEEL graphic organizer!

Young writers map out their essays with the help of this graphic organizer.

Challenge your outspoken learner to put their opinions down on paper, and practice writing persuasive text while they're at it.

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

In this creative activity, students design and make a case for their own proposed emoji.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

While playing this fun memory game, students will find a piece of evidence that supports each claim.

Use this example of a persuasive essay to dissect and identify the parts of this genre.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

In this worksheet, children read the story of Parks' act of passive resistance, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on why the boycott was successful, as well as why it inspired the support of so many people around the United States.

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an persuasive essay with this engaging activity.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

Young writers are guided through the process of planning and writing a persuasive essay in this comprehensive, three-page worksheet.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Students will craft their own essay using this graphic organizer as a helpful way to get started.

Encourage children to reflect on the First and Fourth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution with this multi-page worksheet.

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

Hook your students with this cookie-themed exercise that will teach the basics of strong persuasive writing.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!