Poisonous Animals

Poisonous Animals is an expository nonfiction text that explains animals with poison inside them as well as poisonous claws, fangs, skin, spines, and stingers. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels.

Poisonous Animals 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 picture of a poisonous animal with text is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (sting), positional words (on) and high-frequency words (inside) Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters at the beginning of sentences, full stops, and commas. Focus on blend st (sting) and word family ing (stings).

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