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Shadow Tag Is the Best: Opinion Writing

Grade 2 opinion writing: study a model, spot the opinion, reasons and linking words, then plan your own piece about a favorite snack.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toW.2.1

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1 Common Core standard
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10 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students find the opinion, reasons and ending in a model opinion piece.
Students use linking words such as because and also to connect reasons.
Students plan an opening, two reasons and a conclusion for their own opinion.

How to use

Read the model aloud, then let students answer the first two sections on their own. Use the planning boxes as a first draft and help students turn them into a full paragraph.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.2.1

Write an opinion piece that introduces the topic or book, states an opinion, gives reasons, links them with words like because, and ends with a conclusion.

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Shadow Tag Is the Best: Opinion Writing

Find the opinion, the reasons and the linking words, then plan your own piece.

Read the model

An opinion piece tells what the writer thinks and gives reasons. Read this model.

The Best Recess Game

1What is the best game to play at recess? At my school, my friends and I play shadow tag. I think shadow tag is the best game of all.

2First, shadow tag is fun because you do not need a ball or a rope. You only need the sun and your own shadow. You tag a friend by stepping on their shadow.

3Also, I like shadow tag because it keeps me moving. I run, turn and dodge so that no one steps on my shadow. After recess, I feel awake and ready to learn.

4That is why shadow tag is the best recess game. The next time the sun is out, come and play with us!

What is the writer's opinion?