Wood Eaters

Wood Eaters is an expository nonfiction text that explains invisible pests, termites, woodworms, and wood-eating fungi. Readers gain information from the text, zoomed in pictures, captions, fact boxes and visual diagrams. Photographs are labelled with keywords. 

Wood Eaters is a Report with a topic, headings, facts, and information shown in different of ways. Critical thinking questions are provided to guide the reader. Photographs match the text. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the photographs, visual diagrams, fact boxes, Table of Contents, Index, layout, and design. There is an infographic at the end of the book outlining the different components of Reports. An activity on providing details under a heading is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such adjectives (large pincers) and pronouns (their). Focus students’ attention on adjectives, homonyms, antonyms, and synonyms. Opportunities arise to discuss hyphens (wood-eating). Discuss r-controlled vowels and double consonants after a short vowel. Look at suffixes ies (butterflies) and base words (destructive).

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