In our Stage 3 Literacy group with Ms Filacouridis, we found out about armidillo’s by reading an information report. Before reading the information report, we had to use any pre existing background knowledge that we had to draw what we thought an armidillo might look like – the only clue we were given was that it was an animal!

Here are some of our labelled drawings based on our predictions. 

Then we read a paragraph which described the armidillo. We had to use  this information to draw our intepretations now that we had some knowledge of what the armidillo looked like.

This is what we came up with:

Then, we went on the internet and looked at armidillo’s in their natural environment. They were very cute!

We continued developing our knowledge on the armidillo by working through the information report which detailed where they lived, what they ate, where they were found in the world, how they protected themselves from their enemies and how they reproduced.

We  used various comprehension strategies throughout the lesson and finished off by labelling a diagram and providing an explanation of the armidillo’s features.