Opinion Writing

 With February  FRONT AND CENTER, I thought I’d share a new idea that I had this year for teaching, publishing, and bulletin boarding our opinion writing pieces!

My kiddos usually LOVE sharing their opinions with me, so I KNEW I could get them excited about writing when they got to WRITE about those opinions that they had to share! I also wanted this to be something that I could turn into a February bulletin board to share their little 2nd grade minds and opinions with the rest of the hallway!

So what I came up with looks like this . . .

The kiddos got to write a review for their favorite book, movie or song.  They pre-wrote their opinions and reasons to support their opinions and then drafted on a separate piece of paper.  Then, when it was publish worthy, they got to write their final copy of their book, movie, or song review on this fun and *love*ly paper! They LOVED it!! They could hardly wait to get to the publishing part, but I made sure  they knew that their opinion writing needed to be publish worthy before theirs was mounted! (this slowed their pencils down a littttle bit – in a good way and for good reason!)

Here is what our bulletin board now looks like with their opinion writing pieces mounted on some colored paper:

And just like that – CHECK! – February bulletin board is done, cute?!, and common core aligned.  And – because I’m watching the Big Bang Theory right now – Bazinga! 🙂

If you’re working on opinion writing in your class and would like to publish your students’ pieces for a February or Valentine’s Day display, check out my I’m Lovin’ It Opinion Writing pack in my store! You can click HERE or click the image below!