Opinion Writing Prompts to Support Writing Confidence 

Sometimes students struggle to come up with ideas for their opinion writing. That’s where the Teach Starter team can help!

This set of five opinion writing prompts has been designed by our team to take the stress out of choosing a persuasive writing topic. Each prompt offers two simple choices, reducing cognitive load and encouraging students to focus on crafting strong arguments rather than wrestling with topic selection.

The opinion writing prompts included in this pack are:

• School uniforms or free dress?
• Group work or individual work?
• Digital learning or paper-based learning?
• Team sports or individual sports?
• Screen time or outdoor time?

This resource downloads as a quick-print PDF or editable Google Slides file

Whether you’re using this resource for an assessment or as part of your opinion writing unit, these prompts are sure to give your students a solid starting point for creating a well-structured and highly convincing persuasive text.

Ways to Use These Writing Prompts for Opinion Writing

These writing prompts for opinion writing can be used in a variety of ways to help your students fine-tune their persuasive writing skills. Here are some ideas you might like to consider in your planning:

• Verbal Debates – Choose a prompt, then let the students pick which option they prefer. Conduct a class discussion that allows students to share their viewpoints verbally. This approach is ideal for students who need to verbalize their ideas before writing.
• Modeled Planning and Writing – Choose a prompt, then project it on your interactive whiteboard. Model the process of planning and writing a persuasive text with your students. Show how to brainstorm arguments, compile evidence, then write a text following the appropriate structural conventions.
• Rhetorical Devices Focus – Choose a prompt, then place the students in small groups. Assign each group a rhetorical device, e.g. rhetorical questions, modality, emotive language. Have the students brainstorm examples of their device that could be used in a text for the chosen prompt.

Download This Opinion Writing Prompt Pack

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Once downloaded, you can print this opinion writing prompt pack for writing rotations, display them on your interactive whiteboard or upload them to your learning platform for at-home practice.

This resource was created by Kaylyn Chupp, a teacher in Florida and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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