Digital Valentines Day Opinion Writing for Google Slides includes Videos

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Engage students in opinion writing at home (or in the classroom) around Valentine’s Day with this engaging Google Slides writing project. Through this digital activity, students respond to the prompt by picking a person they admire for being sweet, then writing a plan and persuasive essay about why that person is the sweetest person. This makes a great surprise gift for parents, teachers or any other adult!

ALL teaching videos are already included.. simply assign and go! Excellent for digital learning, distance learning, homeschool teachers, hybrid teaching, guest teachers, student teachers and the average busy teacher!

Students will practice basic skills on Google Slides while working on this presentation. ALL TEACHING VIDEOS are included, or can be replaced with videos that you make. Simply assign, and students will be ready to go.

This unit includes 5 lessons for one week of writing.

Week Overview:

• Monday: Introduction and Prewrite – Students will learn how to add bullet points to their graphic organizer

• Tuesday: Draft – Students will write a basic topic sentence, 2 reason sentences and details to support their reasons including adjectives

• Wednesday: Draft – Students will finish their last 2 reasons, 2 details (including prepositions, commas, adjectives and conjunctions) and add a basic closing sentence

• Thursday: Revise/Edit – Students are walked through using a basic revising and editing checklist

• Friday: Students are taught to add photos and to use a rubric to check their work before turning it in

What you get with the download:

A PDF linking to:

• Teaching Slide

• Student Planning Template

• Student Publishing Template

This was designed for second graders, but can easily be implemented in first and third grade classrooms.

These lessons build on each other, so videos might go through previously covered topics rather quickly. If you would like the comprehensive resource, upgrade to the bundle.