Butterflies

Butterflies is an expository nonfiction text that explains the lifecycle of a butterfly including the stages of being a caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly. It also describes the characteristics of a butterfly including its colours, eggs, feet, food, and mouth. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels.

Butterflies includes critical thinking questions to guide the reader. Photographs match the text. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the photographs and compare them to illustrations. As well, focus is placed on the labels, Index, layout, and design. An activity on drawing and labelling a butterfly is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (mouth), high-frequency words (look), and positional words (on). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters at the beginning of sentences, full stops, commas, and exclamation marks. Focus on blend fl (flying) and word family et (wet).

This title is from the Sails Literacy series. Hook readers and ignite their curiosity - over 850 levelled texts with bright, colourful, sophisticated designs.