This informative text written by Eric Carle is a bright and engaging introduction to the animal kingdom. Featuring over 180 animals, this book allows students to learn facts and categorise the animals based on their habitats.
This pack includes activities to support this text, with a focus on vocabulary, grammatical features and structuring informative texts. There are various activities that can be adapted for various learning levels.
Included in this pack:
* Features of Informative text reflection- students can identify features of this informative text and discuss the intended audience.
* Who Am I activity with Animal picture cards- students can read a description from the book, highlight the key vocabulary and choose the animal to match.
* Label the Diagram activity- students can use the image to label the animal, using adjectives and verbs, and also add information from additional research.
* Identify Parts of Speech activity- students identify the article, adjective, noun and verb in the sentences written about animals from the book.
* Compound Sentences (cause and effect) activity cards- students circle the conjunction used to form a compound sentence and then identify the cause and effect of that sentence.
* Informative Text scaffold- students can collect information about various animals using the subheadings- appearance, habitat, diet, behaviour and other facts.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways (ACELA1447)
Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent ‘What’s happening?’, ‘What state is being described?’, ‘Who or what is involved?’ and the surrounding circumstances (ACELA1451)
Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) (ACELA1452)
Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning (ACELA1453)
Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose (ACELA1463)
Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases (ACELA1493)
Know some features of text organisation including page and screen layouts, alphabetical order, and different types of diagrams, for example timelines (ACELA1466)
Understand that simple connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with two or more clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction (ACELA1467)
Identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts (ACELY1668)