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Mealworms for Room 9: Finding Strong Reasons

Grade 3 opinion writing: read a student's piece about choosing mealworms as class pets, find his reasons and details, and plan reasons of your own.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toW.3.1.b

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students identify the reasons and details that support the opinion in a model piece.
Students tell apart sentences that give a reason from sentences that do not.
Students write reasons with details that support their own opinion.

How to use

Read Kaveh's opinion piece aloud and talk about how each reason is explained. Then have students answer on their own and use the last part to plan an opinion paragraph.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.3.1.b

Give reasons that support the opinion.

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Mealworms for Room 9: Finding Strong Reasons

Find the reasons that support an opinion, then plan your own.

Read the opinion piece

Kaveh wrote this for his class pet vote. Read it and look for his reasons.

Why Room 9 Should Get Mealworms

1Room 9 is choosing a class pet. Some kids want a hamster, and some want a goldfish. I think our class should get mealworms. Mealworms are the young form of an insect called the darkling beetle. I have three reasons for my opinion.

2First, mealworms are easy to care for. They live in a plastic bin filled with oats. A slice of carrot gives them the water they need. They do not need walks, baths, or a big cage to clean.

3Second, mealworms would help us learn about life cycles. A mealworm grows bigger and sheds its skin many times. Then it turns into a pupa that hardly moves. Later, a beetle crawls out. We could watch every stage on our science shelf.

4Third, mealworms would not bother anyone. They do not squeak at night or splash water out of a tank. Their bin is small, so it would fit on a shelf without crowding our reading corner.

5Mealworms are easy to care for, they can teach us about life cycles, and they would not bother anyone. Please vote for mealworms next Friday!
Kaveh

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