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Edith Slocum first graders were encouraged to be opinionated during an assignment in which they compared and contrasted their school playgrounds. In their Writing Workshop class, the students have been studying the writing of reviews and opinions. With a clipboard and checklist of playground features, the students took to the older students’ playground and the school’s older playground and were instructed to compare and contrast the two. They looked at features such as the slide, monkey bars, the substrate under the equipment, etc. After the classes examined the playgrounds, they went back to class to write their opinion on which playground’s features were best and why and to discuss with their classmates whether they agree or lightly disagree with their peers’ assessments. Teacher Terry-Lynn Guastella said the assignment served an important purpose. She said being able to write an opinion is “a skill to be used the rest of their lives.”
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