New Writing Course: Informed Opinion Letters for Grades K-2

Pepper released 4 new Writing Courses on August 3, 2015:

• Introduction to Structured Narrative Writing (Grades K-2)
• Introduction to Narrative Writing (Grades 3-5)
• Informed Opinion Letters for Teachers (Grades K-2)
• Argument Writing for High School

These courses were authored by content experts from Accelerated Literacy Learning and are an addition to our current Pepper course, Argument Writing for Middle School.

The course, Informed Opinion Letters for Grades K-2, will provide you with all of the background knowledge, experiences, and resources necessary to conduct an informed opinion letter unit of study with young children. Teachers will work through the process of creating and editing their own piece of writing, which will allow them to teach by example. Participants will experience short videos, quizzes, reflection journals, and opinion polls to build their knowledge and prepare them to teach the writing of opinion letters.

Topics that will be covered include:

• Creating a Rationale for Informed Opinion Letter Writing
• Generating Opinions in a Variety of Ways
• Letters as a Writing Genre
• Linking Opinions to Strong Research
• Revision
• Celebrating and Reflecting

The course requires 6 hours of work online with an additional 4 hours offline. You can get more information and a full course outline by clicking here.

Check out this course and our other offerings in Math, English/Language Arts, and Special Ed, by visiting Pepper!

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