Writing - Information Text - Adaptations

Students plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal informative texts on a pokemon-style creature which has adapted to particular structural features and behaviours to enable their survival in multiple, specific habitats.

• Resources Included

  • 1 x detailed, ready to go, step by step lesson plan

  • 1 x annotated reading on adaptations

  • 2 x annotated example of a quality information text

• Learning Intentions & Success Criteria

  Students will:

  • plan, create, edit and publish and imaginative text

  • demonstrate an understanding of how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats through informative writing

  Students can: 

  • create a creature

  • create multiple adaptations of this creature based on requirements to survive in specific habitats

  • create multiple informative texts on the lifecycle, diet, physical features, and habitats of these creatures

• ACARA Links

  Year 5

  • AC9S5U01

    examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats

  • AC9E5LY06

    plan, create, editand publish written and multimodaltexts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, textconnectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation