Information Report Lesson 1-2

Hey welcome back, hopefully you did that

task for me, I look forward to

seeing your answers.

We're gonna now look at key features

and that's the first thing you read when

you open an information report.

What are key features? I'm just going to

try and shrink my head down but don't

think it works, oh well.

Just imagine that you can see the whole

writing.

So key features are a detailed

description of what

the animal that you're looking at looks

like and they can include details like

the size, remember we're Australian so we

read in centimeters and meters.

The colour of the animal,

it's scientific name,

perhaps it has some special features.

For example a platypus,

one of either the male or the female,

have special poisonous spurs on the

webbed feet

and then you could also include things

that it does. What does it do.

Another important thing to do when you

are writing about your key features of

your animal, is make sure that it is

written in your own words.

Alright and then

record where you got your information

from, but we'll look at that in a few

slides time.

So here's one I did

on koalas.

So koalas key features.

The koala, I'm going to have a go at

saying the scientific name,

not very good at it, but I'm going to

have a try anyway,

is phascolarctos cinereus,

is an arboreal, which means tree dwelling

herbivorous (plant eating) marsupial.

Koalas are well known for their large

round head,

big furry ears

and black nose.

Their fur is usually grey brown in colour

with white fur on the chest and inner arms, ears

and bottom.

They have no fur on their nose

or on the palms of their paws.

In hindsight, I could have probably told

you how big they are in centimeters,

so that would be a wish for my

key features of a koala.

What I'm going to get you to do now is

listed, we did some

when we're at school

and what I'm going to get you to do is

you're going to read their paragraphs,

the key features of the animal that

they chose

and then I would like for you to give me

two stars and a wish. So I've done an

example just here and the first one

we're going to do is chipmunks.

Chipmunks are squirrel-sized mammals

that have light brown fur, small ears

and small legs and arms.

A chipmunk also has a fat body that

connects to its legs and arms.

So after reading that I'm going to think

about what

would be good to be included in a key

feature paragraph and

what I like about this, is that it has

some technical language. So it's used the

word mammal, and I thought that was great.

I also liked that they you used some

adjectives to describe the chipmunk.

So for example you use that had a fat body,

you didn't just say

body. So that was great but

a wish for it is

I would like for someone who didn't know

what a squirrel was, because remember we

live in Australia, we don't have

squirrels in Australia.

It might be helpful to give them the

measurements

in centimeters so the reader can help

it'll help the reader visualize it in

their head a little bit more.

So then what I would ask this person

that wrote about chipmunks to do would

be go back and incorporate that

feedback into their work. Maybe they

could add some more technical language.

Maybe they could add some more

adjectives, but then I would really hope

that they would be able to tell me in

centimeters how

big a chipmunk was, they're not very big

I don't think.

So the next couple, there's one on pandas.

I'll read it to you,

panda's are a black and white striped

bear. Sometimes they are very lazy.

From ancient China until the

present, people have always loved pandas.

Whether in popular snacks, animated films

or more, the world can't seem to get

enough of these fuzzy creatures.

So, I need you to look at that paragraph and

think, has it

described what it looks like?

Is there a measurement?

Does it have perhaps a scientific name?

What's one thing that you really liked

about it?

What's another thing that you liked

about it and then what is a wish?

And there are another

two of these after this one, there's one

on polar bears,

and then one on koalas

which I would love for you to put in two

stars and a wish for.

Then I'll come and talk to you again

and we'll talk about the bibliography.

So your task now is to

read over

those three different animals and the

key features that people have

written about and give them some

feedback and I'll see you on the

bibliography page.

Thank you.