Opinion Writing

We have been working really hard on learning to write our opinions!  We did a lot of activities involving what is a fact and what is an opinion.  Once students had a firm grasp on this concept,  we started to talk about what makes a stong opinion.  We've had many discussions why "It is awesome" isn't a strong argument.  We've really worked on generating strong reasons to support our opinion.  We've also talked a lot about the structure of our writing pieces.  We know that each piece of writing should have an opening sentence that states our opinion or focus, 3 strong reasons to support our opinion and a closing sentence that restates our opinion.