The best opinion writing mentor texts students will love

Are you looking for some engaging authentic opinion writing mentor texts to help get your students formulating and writing their opinion? Below are my 10 favorite opinion writing mentor texts to pair with fun projects or prompts for your classroom. This classic text is a great way to engage students in a thoughtful debate on whether or not we should squish ants.

In the T chart, we lists reasons for why and why not we should or should not squish them.

Mentor texts for opinion writing grade 4

Kids love this opinion project and get extremely into it! You can grab this resource for any k-3 classroom on Teachers Pay Teachers. Is it a rabbit? Is it a duck? Do you like rabbits more? Do you like ducks more? The opportunities for places to take this book are endless. This book explores the classic debate of duck vs.