6 Paired Passages with Writing Prompts for Opinion & Informational Essays BUNDLE

Do your students groan when it's time for writing? Try these interesting opinion and informational paired passages with writing prompts to get your students excited about writing! This print-and-go resource includes 6 opinion and informational writing prompts that will help your students practice their writing skills.

Each resource includes a set of paired passages, writing prompt, planning page, and writing pages. This will allow you to stop spending hours searching for high-quality writing materials. Your students will truly enjoy reading and writing about these exciting topics.

Opinion Prompts:

• Should electric cars be required?
• Should parents monitor their child's cell phone?
• Should students be allowed to use social media at school?

Informational Prompts:

• How do adaptations help plants and animals survive?
• What is renewable energy and why is it useful?
• How have women contributed to science?

Included in this Writing Essays Bundle:

• 3 Opinion Writing Prompts
• 3 Informational Writing Prompts
• 2 Text Sources for Each Prompt
• Planning Sheets
• Writing Paper

Standards Covered:

• Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
• Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
• Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

Ideas for Use:

• Individual Writing Practice
• Whole Group Instruction
• Partner Practice
• Substitute Plans
• Send Home as Practice
• ELA Work Stations or Centers
• Assessments

I am the author of each text, I just used different author names so students could practice citing different names.

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