All About My Favourite Animal — Information Writing — Answers
Answer sheet with model answers and success criteria for the Year 2 informative writing writing prompt.
Year 2 · English · Informative Writing
All About My Favourite Animal — Information Writing — Answers
The prompt
Choose an animal you know a lot about. It could be an Australian animal like a kangaroo or a kookaburra, or a pet, or an animal you have read about.
Write an information report that teaches someone about your animal. Remember: an information report gives facts, not a story. Write about what is true for all of these animals, not just one.
Plan
Answer each question. Each answer will become a part of your report.
Answer: The echidna.
Answer: It is about as long as a ruler and a half. It is brown and covered in sharp spines. It has a long thin nose.
Answer: Echidnas live all over Australia, in forests, deserts and grasslands.
Answer: It eats ants and termites. It uses its long sticky tongue to catch them.
Answer: An echidna lays an egg, but it is a mammal. The baby is called a puggle.
Write
Model answer: Echidnas. Echidnas are Australian animals covered in sharp spines. They are brown and about as long as a ruler and a half. Echidnas live all over Australia in forests, deserts and grasslands. They eat ants and termites, which they catch with their long sticky tongue.
Success criteria:
- My report has a title that names the animal
- I wrote facts, not a story
- I wrote about what the animal looks like, where it lives and what it eats
- I included one interesting fact
- I used 'is', 'are', 'has' and 'have' (present tense)
- Every sentence has a capital letter and a full stop
Marking tips
- Give credit for correct method even when the final answer slips — the working shows where the thinking went right.
- For open-ended tasks, use the success criteria as a checklist rather than looking for one "right" answer.
- Celebrate what went well first, then pick one thing to work on next.