Teach your students to write a convincing opinion with this short unit on persuasive writing. Your students will love learning to express a written opinion with persuasive techniques. This lesson guides students through the writing process (plan, draft, revise, edit, publish) as they create an original persuasive essay or letter.

Save precious time with this writing resource that includes everything you need in a print-and-go format!

What's included in this persuasive opinion writing resource for third grade?

• Detailed lesson plans for the teacher that breaks the unit out into five parts (ideally taught over multiple days). These lessons include suggested class discussion questions, anchor chart examples, and student-level information about effective opinion/persuasive writing.
• 3 pages of unit outlines and lesson plans
• Student book cover
• Differentiated persuasive planning pages (choose the one that works best for your class)
• Rough copy paper for an essay or letter
• Student self-evaluation checklist
• Teacher evaluation

This unit also includes a DIGITAL, Google Slides, version of all student pages which can be used in Google Classroom for distance or at-home learning.

The teacher lesson plan assumes that you have access to a mentor text about persuasive/opinion writing. I suggest the book ‘I Wanna Iguana’ by Karen Kaufman and David Orlow.

This writing unit is also available as part of a BUNDLE of 5 third grade Writing Units available at a deep discount. Check out the 5-unit BUNDLE here!