These scaffolded cards are a great tool to use to encourage specified research questions. They are based on the book 'Seashells: More Than a Home' by Melissa Stewart- an imaginative scientific text which explains the various adaptations of seashells and their versatility. The book explores seashells as homes for various mollusks and identifies the different types of seashells- bivalve, cephalopod, chiton, gastropod and scaphopod.
Research skills are imperative to teach students and these cards are perfect to consolidate these research skills with an engaging and interesting topic.
These cards print out A4 in size.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1682)
Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation (ACELA1790)
Identify features of online texts that enhance readability including text, navigation, links, graphics and layout (ACELA1793)
Investigate how the organisation of texts into chapters, headings, subheadings, home pages and sub pages for online texts and according to chronology or topic can be used to predict content and assist navigation (ACELA1797)