Mrs. Arnold and her second graders

During my walk around the school one the great lessons I observed was of Mrs. Arnold introducing a lesson on Opinion Writing.  The students were learning how to structure their writing where each students had to share their opinion of which of two books he/she prepared and why.  Mrs. Arnold introduced to her students how to use a Venn diagram to help them organize his/her comparison of the two books.  The class learned about using information about the book's characters and interesting facts to support his/her opinion.  Then Mrs. Arnold had the class practice as group by reading aloud the books, "I Wanna New Room" and "I Wanna Iguana".