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New Food Friday: Amara Plans Her Opinion

Grade 3 opinion writing: study a girl's letter asking her family to try a new food each week, then plan your own opinion with reasons.

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Aligned toW.3.1.a

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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 find how a writer introduces a topic and states an opinion.
Students list a writer's reasons in a plan and match each reason to its detail.
Students plan their own opinion with a topic, an opinion and three reasons.

How to use

Read Amara's letter together and mark her opinion and reasons, then have students fill in their own plan before they write a full letter.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.3.1.a

Introduce the topic or text, state an opinion, and plan an organization that lists the reasons.

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New Food Friday: Amara Plans Her Opinion

Find the topic, the opinion and the reasons, then plan your own.

Read Amara's letter

Amara wants her family to try something new at dinner. Read her letter.

Let's Try New Food Friday

1Dear Family,
Every Friday night, we eat the same dinner: spaghetti. Spaghetti is tasty, but our Friday dinners have started to feel a little boring. I think we should start New Food Friday, when we try one new dish each week.

2My first reason is that we could learn about foods from other places. We could make empanadas, jollof rice, or bibimbap. My second reason is that everyone can take turns choosing. Grandpa could pick a dish he ate when he was a boy. My third reason is that trying new foods helps us find new favorites. Maybe we will love something we have never tasted!

3We do not have to give up spaghetti. We can still eat it on other nights of the week. We can also cook the new dishes together, so nobody has to do all the work. I will help chop, stir, and wash the dishes.

4Please say yes to New Food Friday!
Love,
Amara

How Amara planned

Answer each question about Amara's letter.

What is the topic of Amara's letter?

A. how to cook a pot of spaghetti
B. the foods Grandpa ate as a boy
C. the best place to eat on a Friday
D. what her family eats on Fridays

Read paragraph 1 again. Underline the sentence where Amara states her opinion.

Every Friday night, we eat the same dinner: spaghetti.Spaghetti is tasty, but our Friday dinners have started to feel a little boring.I think we should start New Food Friday, when we try one new dish each week.

Why does Amara begin by telling that her family eats spaghetti every Friday?

A. to introduce the topic before she gives her opinion
B. to give the last reason in her list of reasons
C. to tell the steps for cooking a spaghetti dinner
D. to end her letter in a way her family will remember

Finish Amara's plan. Use words from the word bank. Each word is used one time.

Word bank: favorites · spoons · places · turns · pillows

Opinion: We should start New Food Friday.
Reason 1: We could learn about foods from other .
Reason 2: Everyone can take choosing.
Reason 3: Trying new foods helps us find new .

Match each reason to the detail Amara uses to explain it.

Reason 1: learn about foods from other places
Reason 2: everyone takes turns choosing
Reason 3: find new favorites

A. Maybe we will love something we have never tasted!
B. We could make empanadas, jollof rice, or bibimbap.
C. Grandpa could pick a dish he ate when he was a boy.

Amara thought of more ideas. Sort them: would each idea support her opinion, or does it not belong in her letter?

Our dog likes to nap on the kitchen rug.A new dish each week keeps dinner from being boring.My winter boots are getting too small.Grandpa could teach us how to cook his dish.My best friend has a new jump rope.