December Writing Workshop 2015

December 2015 Writing Workshop

       This unit focuses on teaching students to craft arguments based on research. In this writing unit, students will learn to develop an argument and support it with multiple resources. This unit aims to give fifth graders additional practice producing texts that are written as arguments. Students will be reading collections of texts on a topic. The work with text sets will provide an opportunity for students to see that while many authors may write about a similar topic often, they often have different opinions about that topic. Students will learn to develop their own opinion based on their own selected topic, select evidence that supports their opinion, and show how that evidence relates to their opinion.