All About My Favorite Animal — Information Writing — Answers
Answer sheet with model answers and success criteria for the 2nd Grade informative writing writing prompt.
Success TutoringWorksheetsAnswer sheet2nd Grade · English · Informative WritingAll About My Favorite Animal — Information Writing — Answers
Plan
Answer each question. Each answer will become a part of your report.
Answer: The nine-banded armadillo.
Answer: It is about as big as a house cat. It is gray-brown and covered in a hard shell made of bony plates. It has a long, pointed nose.
Answer: Armadillos live in the southern United States, including most of Texas, in forests, grasslands and scrubland.
Answer: It eats insects such as ants, beetles and grubs. It digs them up with its strong claws and catches them with its long sticky tongue.
Answer: A mother nine-banded armadillo almost always has four babies at once, and all four are identical.
Write
Model answer: Armadillos. Nine-banded armadillos are mammals covered in a hard shell made of bony plates. They are gray-brown and about as big as a house cat. Armadillos live in the southern United States, including most of Texas, in forests, grasslands and scrubland. They eat insects such as ants and beetles, 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 period
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.
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