Make opinion writing fun this October with this engaging Halloween Opinion Writing Activity for First Grade and Second Grade. This ready-to-use literacy lesson guides students step-by-step through writing a short opinion piece about Halloween costumes. After writing, students create a matching craft that makes a fantastic wall display for your classroom.
This resource helps students build confidence in opinion writing, practice using sentence starters, and organize their ideas clearly while enjoying a seasonal theme.
This Halloween opinion writing pack includes:
- Step-by-step lesson plan with instructions
- Opinion writing anchor chart (color and black and white)
- Drafting sheets with 6 layout options and 2 characters to choose from
- Opinion writing word list (color and black and white)
- 5 differentiated writing templates to support all learners
- Final draft writing checklist
- 12 Halloween costume crafts (2 to a page, black and white for easy printing)
Comes with both US and UK spelling variations for flexible classroom use.
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Halloween Opinion Writing Worksheets First Grade and Second Grade
ACARA Alignment
English
Grade 1
AC9E1LY06
create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllable words
AC9E1LA07
understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)
AC9E1LA10
understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns
Grade 2
AC9E2LE02
identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences
AC9E2LY06
create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words
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