Fangs

Fangs is an expository nonfiction text that explains getting food with fangs, snake fangs, and spider fangs. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels.

Fangs 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 writing about animals with and without fangs is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (fangs), high-frequency words (have), and positional words (up). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters at the beginning of sentences, full stops, exclamation marks, and commas. Focus on blend sp (spider) and word family ake (snake).

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