A Scaffolded Approach to Helping Students Support Writing Claims with Reasoning Promote high-quality instruction with this teacher-developed, scaffolded resource for writing. Enhance students’ confidence, promote independent learning, and assist students to reach proficiency in grade-level targets with included scaffolding such as word banks with pictures, visual aids (real photography), graphic organizers, guiding questions, and sentence starters. In this 32-page, You Have Three Choices Opinion Writing Log, students choose one out of three topics and then support their reasons for their choice. They use the word bank and picture cues and other facts to analyze each topic. Students then use the graphic organizer to help plan their argument. Finally, students ask themselves questions as they plan and use the sentence starters to write about their opinion or claim.

• WHAT YOU GET: Includes 12 journals. Each journal is 32 pages (16 sheets) each. The size of each journal is 8½" by 11".
  
• SCAFFOLDED: Includes scaffolding such as word banks with pictures, visual aids with real photography, graphic organizers, guiding questions, and sentence starters.
  
• SKILLS BASED & CREATED BY TEACHERS: This product is purposefully created by teachers who have real-world classroom experience to align to multiple learning standards. Skills covered include opinion writing, creating a claim, planning, providing, and organizing evidence as well as analyzing Information.
  
• INDEPENDENT PRACTICE BUILDS CONFIDENCE: Children develop confidence as they complete and interact with these materials independently.
  
• SUPPORTS SMALL GROUPWORK AND DISCUSSION: Since students are given three choices to choose from, groups can easily be formed around topics to promote easy discussion and collaboration!