Sharing Opinions: The Best Simple Machine for a Job
Description
In this unit students will use their research on simple machines to form an opinion and write an editorial. This editorial will state the student’s opinion on which simple machine he or she believes helps people the most. Students will read and analyze two editorials as mentor texts in order to study author’s craft, specifically how to identify opinions in writing and how authors use reasons with evidence to support their opinions.
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Bilingual Language Progressions
These resources, developed by the New York State Education Department, provide standard-level scaffolding suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs) to help them meet grade-level demands. Each resource contains scaffolds at multiple levels of language acquisition and describes the linguistic demands of the standards to help ELA teachers as well as ESL/bilingual teachers scaffold content for their English learning students.
