Informational text Sam Levien

Text Feature Scavenger Hunt Author Information ✔Boldface Words Bullet Points ✔Picture Captions Graph/ Chart/Diagram ✔Contact Information ✔Drawing ✔Fact/Opinion ✔Italicized Words Glossary ✔Heading Index List Map ✔Subheading/ Subtitle ✔Photographs ✔Questions/ Answers Table of Contents ✔Title Timeline Pronunciation Guide	Informational Text Breakdown Name:       Sam                            Date:29.10.18 Text Title: Exotic Paradise        Author: Gavin Mouldey
	Preview  Complete BEFORE reading the text   What I expect to read about: A beautiful Pacific island with no interruptions. What I already know, or think I know about the topic:Hot weather, coral reefs, butterfly fish. Questions I have about the topic: Where is it in the world? How big is the place? Is it fun?
Author’s Purpose To Entertain To Persuade To Inform Other: ________ _____________ Prove it: To Inform because they are giving info about the topic	So What’s The Big Idea: Pick three words that describe the main idea.
	Zealandia	Evolved	Fossils
Vocabulary: Choose a word from the text you knew, or didn’t know, and explain why it’s important to know in regards to the big idea! Mesozoic WHY? Mesozoic I learnt about the animals in that time and the Manuherikia lake.	Put it into a sentence: NZ was the place where many berds
	Detail: Zeolandia was/is a continent	Detail: a lot of our native beads evolved in Zealandia	Detail:lake Manuherikia is a palaeolack that holds masazowick fossils in sediment
	What I learned: about the animals of the Manuherikia animas and the Mesozoic time with the dinosaurs. The connection I made while reading:I made a connection to thinking the penguin is almost the hite of Steven Adams Questions I still have about the topic: What caused the ice age.