These identification cards and writing prompts are a great stimulus to use during literacy sessions. Students are able to learn and recognise certain insects and can create informative and imaginative texts using the sentence starters. The cards are a great resource to go with certain Science units and can encourage further research into specific mini beasts.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
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)
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)
Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives (ACELA1468)