Explicitly Teach How to Write an Opinion Piece

If you’re planning on starting your opinion writing unit soon, you’ve hit the jackpot! The Teach Starter team has compiled everything you need for teaching opinion writing skills into one comprehensive slide deck!

This teaching presentation comprises 20 slides designed to teach your students the fundamentals of how to write an opinion piece. Within the slides, you’ll find detailed explanations of the purpose, structural components and language characteristics of opinion texts. The presentation also includes authentic, age-appropriate examples, providing opportunities for analysis and discussion with your class.

To ensure student comprehension, the slideshow incorporates several review activities that can be completed as a whole class, in small groups or independently. Supplementary resources from Teach Starter are linked within the presentation to further enrich your students’ understanding of the opinion genre.

Using this resource, your students will learn the skills they need to write an effective opinion text.

Features of This Opinion Writing Skills Presentation

This opinion text presentation is jam-packed with information and activities to help your students learn all there is to know about opinion writing. Some of the slides include:

• What are opinion texts?
• Structure of opinion texts
• Language of opinion texts
• Chocolate Is Not Unhealthy – Example text
• School Lunchtimes Should Be Longer – Example text
• Show what you know activities

Download to Teach Opinion Writing Skills to Your Students

This slideshow downloads as either a Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation. Use the dropdown menu on the Download button to access your preferred version. (Note: You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides presentation before accessing it.)

Project the resource onto your screen and work through the slides as a class over a sequence of lessons.

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