Grade 03 ELA - Standard: CC.1.4.3.G
Grade 03 ELA - Standard: CC.1.4.3.G
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Tell whether the following sentences are facts or opinions.
- What is your opinion on the following topic?
- Use a graphic organizer to organize facts to support your opinion.
- From the list of facts, which three best support your opinion about the topic?
- Create a writing that states your opinion about the following topic. Use facts and details to help convince others to agree with your opinion.
- Read the following opinion writing. Write an essay that opposes the original opinion. Use facts and details that supports the new opinion.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Students will identify whether the given sentences are facts or opinions.
- Students must develop their opinion on a given topic.
- Students will organize facts that support their opinion onto a web.
- Students will consider all facts and choose the three strongest ones to use to support their opinion. These facts should be solid and could be developed in a writing.
- Students will develop an opinion about a topic and develop it into an opening for a writing. The opinion will be supported with facts and details that explain why the opinion is valid. Students should choose an effective organizational structure to implement in the writing. Possible strategies are least important to most important, most important to least important, cause and effect, etc. Students should conclude with a closing that restates the opinion.
- Students will read and analyze an opinion writing. They will then write an essay that takes a different point of view about the topic. They should use details to counter the details in the original essay.
