2nd - 5th Grade Opinion Writing Resources

In this fun essay-writing activity, young writers will complete a graphic organizer to plan their thoughts, then refer to it to write a short opinion piece about their favorite dinner.

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

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

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

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

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

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

Looking for an opinion graphic organizer for your learner? Check out this worksheet template that helps your child list an opinion, reasons, and conclusion.

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

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

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Evaluate your arguments with this fourth-grade persuasive writing assessment!

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

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

This fun, fantastical writing prompt is a great way to practice persuasive writing, an important part of upper-elementary composition.

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

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

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.

Encourage your second graders to develop a well-reasoned argument about the length of recesses with this writing prompt and rubric. Students can use the pre-writing planner to develop their argument, then they'll write out their opinion on page two.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

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

This fact and opinion worksheet guides your child to learning the difference between facts and opinions. Try this fact and opinion worksheet with your student.

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

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

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

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