Name: Yelp Review Template (Editable on Google Slides)
SKU: 632cc98f2834d87864098c0d
Price: 39.99 USD
Availability: InStock

About this resource

What's inside this resource

This Yelp Review template and presentation is an engaging opinion writing activity. Best of all, this resource is available in both printable pdf format as well as a Google Slides editable format. This Yelp template allows students to add text and pictures to a “Yelp Review Template”. The template is locked, so your students can’t mistakenly move or delete the background. It comes with Full and half page Yelp Review template. Both Styles come with and without writing lines.

Use this to:

Have your students discuss a character or setting in a novel
Focus on a historical person
Focus on a Geographic area
Use it in science and have your students record their information

When your students are finished, they can save a picture of their Yelp template.

What's included

An About page describing the resource as an opinion writing activity and listing four suggested uses: discussing a character or setting in a novel, focusing on a historical person, focusing on a geographic area, and recording information in science
A Google Slides copy link with four numbered editing steps, beginning "This is a READ ONLY Google Slide Presentation. You need to MAKE YOUR OWN COPY of this slideshow so you can edit it."
A note on saving finished work: "Click 'File' then 'Download' than 'PNG image'"
A full-page review template with a rating area, a heading line and roughly seventeen ruled writing lines, closing on "Was this review…?"
A full-page review template with the extended footer "Was this review…? Useful Funny Cool"
Unlined versions of the same layouts, introduced by a divider page reading "GREAT FOR PRINTING! BLANK TEMPLATES / PRINT WITH LINES / ADD YOUR OWN TEXT BOXES"
A half-page layout fitting two reviews to a sheet, each with seven ruled lines
Divider pages separating the editing instructions, the template instructions and the blank printing set
A closing page pointing to the vendor's own website for further resources

Resource types: Templates, Teacher Tools

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Write a short opinion piece in review form, giving a rating and then the reasons behind it
Match the register of a public review — brief, direct and addressed to a reader who has not seen the subject
Apply the same format to different content, whether a novel character, a historical figure, a place or a science observation
Judge a classmate's review against the printed prompts Useful, Funny and Cool

Teaching tips

Take your own copy of the slide deck before the lesson: the linked presentation opens read only, and steps 1 to 4 on the instruction page cover signing in, clicking the link and sharing the copy
The background of each slide is locked, so students can add text and images without dragging the layout out of place
Choose the variant by task — the lined pages suit handwriting and the unlined ones are meant for typed text boxes and pasted images
The half-page layout puts two reviews on one sheet, which works for a class set or for a compare-two-opinions pairing on the same subject
Finished slides can be exported as a PNG image through File then Download, which makes them easy to drop into a display or a shared class document

Skills covered

Opinion writing in review form — students commit to a rating and then justify it in the body of the template, the use the file's own About page describes.
Writing to a fixed format — the rating area, heading line and Useful / Funny / Cool footer stay constant, so the content changes while the structure does not.
Transferring a familiar form to academic content — the suggested subjects are a novel character or setting, a historical person, a geographic area and a science record.
Working inside a locked slide layout — students add their own text boxes and images to the blank versions without moving the background.
Exporting finished work — the instruction page walks through saving a completed slide as a PNG image for display or submission.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

What has to be set up before students can type into the slides?

Take your own copy first. The link inside the file opens a read-only presentation, so sign in to a Google account, click the link, and the copy that opens is yours to change and to share with the class. The four steps are printed on the instruction page.

How do the four template versions differ from each other?

By size and by whether lines are printed. Full-page and half-page layouts each come lined and unlined: the lined full page carries about seventeen ruled lines, and the half-page sheet gives seven lines to each of two reviews.

What is printed on the template besides the writing space?

A rating area and a heading line sit above the body, and the footer beneath it reads "Was this review…?" followed by the three response words Useful, Funny and Cool, which a partner can tick after reading.