Explore the powerful forces of volcanoes while developing reading comprehension, vocabulary and informative writing skills!
Designed for Grades 5–6 / Stage 3, this engaging mini unit combines a detailed nonfiction reading passage with meaningful literacy activities that encourage students to retrieve information, make inferences, analyse evidence and develop their own informative report.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
✔ Detailed, illustrated information text about volcanoes
✔ Vocabulary builder with word meanings, syllables and sentence writing
✔ 17 reading comprehension questions plus an extension challenge
✔ Literal, inferential and higher-order thinking activities
✔ Information text research poster
✔ Informative writing planning and drafting worksheets
✔ Publishing pages with writing lines and space for a labelled diagram
SKILLS COVERED
Reading and understanding nonfiction texts
Scientific and subject-specific vocabulary
Retrieving information and making inferences
Explaining and justifying responses using evidence
Summarising key information
Planning, organising and publishing informative writing
PERFECT FOR
⭐ Upper primary literacy lessons
⭐ Science and English cross-curricular learning
⭐ Independent work and extension activities
⭐ Small-group reading instruction
⭐ Casual or substitute teacher lessons
PRINT-AND-GO RESOURCE
A ready-to-use literacy mini unit that takes students from reading and understanding a complex information text to planning and publishing their own informative report!
