Easter writing activities will keep your students engaged and excited about the writing process. Take a look at how we learn about persuasive writing with jelly beans!
Jelly beans – love em' or hate em' they are a part of every child's Easter basket! But which ones are your favorite? Do you like the spicy flavors? Or would you rather have the sweet jelly beans? Those were the questions I asked my students as we prepared to write our opinions of jelly beans with this Easter writing activity.
We started this lesson by reading aloud one of my Easter favorites, Good Job, Jellybean
by Amye Rosenburg. This cute little book set the stage for tasting some jelly beans.
by Amye Rosenburg. This cute little book set the stage for tasting some jelly beans.
I bought some spicy and sweet jelly beans and gave each student a little cup full of jelly beans to taste.
When they were finished, we made this graph of which we liked best – Sweet or Spicy? We also made a list of some of our favorite flavors.
Next, it was time for the kids to do some opinion writing about jelly beans. They used this writing template to help them out. We are learning that in persuasive writing we need to state our opinion, tell some reasons why we feel this way, and restate our opinion at the end.
Finally, we finished up the lesson with this cute jelly bean jar craft. Together, with their writing samples, this made a cute bulletin board display at Easter!
Think your kids would like this activity too? This resource includes everything you need to get your students excited about opinion writing with writing templates. word bank, graphing activities, and a cute jellybean jar craft. Click here to take a closer look.
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