Book Vs. Movie: Writing a Compare and Contrast Opinion Essay
4.9 (351 reviews)Don’t judge a book by its movie! Students LOVE to watch the movie version of a book they have just read, which presents teachers with a valuable opportunity to teach compare-and-contrast/opinion writing. This complete resource will take your students through the entire process of writing a 5-paragr
- Grade
- Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
- Subject
- Reading
- Pages
- 37
- Answer key
- Writing Samples and Rubric Included
- Teaching duration
- 3 Weeks
- Digital download
Description
Don’t judge a book by its movie! Students LOVE to watch the movie version of a book they have just read, which presents teachers with a valuable opportunity to teach compare-and-contrast/opinion writing.
This complete resource will take your students through the entire process of writing a 5-paragraph essay with 11 detailed lessons and supporting student planning pages.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. {Grades 4-8}
Lesson 1- Viewing the Movie, Venn Diagram
Lesson 2- Getting Started: Compare and Contrast
Lesson 3- Pre-Writing: Thinking About an Essay
Lesson 4- The “Meat”: Writing the Body of Your Essay
Lesson 5- Essential Component: Writing a Thesis Statement
Lesson 6- First Impression: Writing the Introduction to Your Essay
Lesson 7- It’s a Wrap!: Writing a Concluding Paragraph
Lesson 8- Familiarize Your Students with the Grading Rubric
Lesson 9- Putting It All Together: First Draft
Lesson 10- Self and Peer Editing
Lesson 11- Time to Publish and Assess
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Materials are good, but they focus in just a few strategies of critical thinking, used repeteadly. I miss some more depth and breath on thinking teaching
Very nice product.
I took a chance on this.....I was hoping for something that the student could use independently. But it's created for the classroom where the teacher would speak as s(he) "flips" through the slides.
I'll still use it in my own direct instruction.
I like this, I would love it if I could move things around to match when my kids learn concepts. I don't want kids to have an activity that I would use as a morning work, individual, on-their-own, to frustrate them because this has fractions before they've learned them, or whatever. I had kids who became very frustrated by the fact that they hadn't learned something at the beginning of the year, but it was introduced in this packet. It also meant I had to either do a mini-lesson for them, weeks before something was introduced, or just show them how something was solved when we went over the answers, rather than letting them figure it out, because it was a morning activity. I don't like that about this product. I understand about copyright, however, there are other sellers and products that do allow editing, which I've since purchased so that I CAN tailor to my classes. This was somewhat of a waste of money.
Hello. I hope you will find a use for this in your classroom at some time in the year. I understand your desire to prevent your students from becoming frustrated. I have always found it beneficial to present unfamiliar concepts to my students, as this is representative of "real life". I can assure you that if you do use the first few weeks of the resource as a a guided instruction opportunity (see teaching notes), your kids will catch on in not time and be off and running. Also, please note that an entire 2 weeks is provided in the preview. Best of luck with your school year!
Good resource.
The roles are really clear and the students responded well. I am using these also for information texts.
Questions & Answers (9)
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Do you have an editable version of this? I'd like to translate it into Spanish for my ML students. Thanks.
Unfortunately, I am unable to provide an editable version of this resource because I created it using Adobe Illustrator and InDesign.
I tried to access the student sample but none of the links seem to work. Can you please fix that or send the link?
Sorry about that. All of the samples are in the PDF. However, I just corrected the hyperlinks so you can click on them to go right to the pages.
Are you ever going to make a digital version?
At this time we do not have plans for a digital version.
Hi-
I was just wondering if you've happened to make a digital copy of this? I have been making screenshots and turning into google slides, but was keeping my fingers crossed for a digital/editable option. :)
Thank you for reaching out! Unfortunately, we do not have a digital version of this resource.
Is there a digital version of this?
No, we do not have a digital version of this resource.
Hi,
I am really excited to use your product. However, I teach Spanish Dual Immersion and will be doing this assignment in Spanish. Is there any way I can edit the text in order to translate it to Spanish? Thank you!
Hi Adrienne, you are more than welcome to translate the resource for your personal use. Unfortunately, I don’t have an editable version of this resource since I created it in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign.
I just purchased this and love it. However, do you by chance have this in a digital format so that it can be assigned to the students through Google Classroom?
Hi Lisa! I don’t have a digital version for this, but you’re are more than welcome to use an annotation app (e.g., Notability) with the resource.
I can't open the links for each student sample. I would love to show the pre-made examples to my class since some of my class already read the Island of the Blue Dolphin.
Hi Kathleen.
Please make sure you are opening and printing the file from the latest version of Adobe Reader. If you are still having trouble, please contact TpT. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Contact
Is this aligned with the common core writing standards?
Hello! Yes it is.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. {Grades 4-8}
