This informational texts powerpoint contains everything you need to teach informational texts in the early years.
It includes:
The brainstorm pages can be copy/pasted for your focus animal. Gather information from videos, books and other sources and add to the relevant slides on diet, appearance, habitat etc. Students can then complete their own information reports using the sentence scaffolds. This can either be completed all at once or over two days.If completing over two days, students complete classification and labelled diagram on the first day, and information about appearance, diet, habitat and other interesting facts on the second day.
Scaffold example is:
Cows are... (classification)
Cows have... (appearance)
Cows eat... (diet)
Cows live... (habitat)
Cows... (interesting fact)