The Best Season Is Writing Activity
The best season is writing activity guides 1st-3rd Grade writers to plan and publish an opinion piece about their favorite season, with a model, practice and answer key included.
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How to Teach Opinion Writing
The best season is writing activity helps young writers share an opinion and back it up with good reasons. In opinion writing, a writer tells what they think, gives reasons that support it, and ends with a closing sentence. Writing about a favorite season is a perfect first topic, because every child already has a strong opinion about snow days, spring flowers, summer fun or fall leaves.
About The Best Season Is Writing Activity
Start by reading the model opinion piece, The Best Season Is Fall, together as a class. Children find the writer’s opinion, the three reasons and the closing. Next, each child picks their own best season and plans it on the opinion planner, with a box for the opinion, three reasons and a closing. Last, they write a final copy on the writing page and draw a picture of their season. A practice worksheet asks children to tell facts from opinions in eight sentences about the seasons and to write one reason of their own.
What’s Included
- A colorful cover page
- A How to Use page with materials, prep tips and steps
- A model opinion piece about fall with a picture
- An opinion planner: opinion, three reasons and a closing
- A writing page with a picture box and writing lines
- A 2nd grade practice worksheet: fact or opinion
- Answer keys: a model plan and the practice answers
Why Kids Love This Activity
First, children get to argue for the season they love most, which makes writing feel personal and fun. Second, the planner breaks a big writing task into small steps that young writers can handle. Third, the picture box lets them show their season in color and share their finished work with pride.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Use this 1st grade essays activity at the start of a new season, in a writing center or as a home writing project. Hold a class vote for the best season and make a tally chart of the results. Then pair children with a classmate who chose a different season and let them read their opinion pieces to each other.
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