How Do Plants Grow Here?
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How Do Plants Grow Here?
ISBN: |
9781760868505 |
Binding: |
Paperback |
Published: |
1 Jan 2019 |
Availability: |
743
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Title Information:
How Do Plants Grow Here?: How Do Plants Grow Here? explores the adaptations that plants that live and thrive in harsh environments have to enable them to find the water and nutrients they need, as well as survive the impact of excessive heat, cold, or other environmental stressors.
Content vocabulary:cactus, cling, energy, filters, freshwater, frozen, harsh, leaves, mangrove plants, melts, protect, rocky, roots, rounded noon flower, salty, seawater, seaweed, shallow, soil, stems, sunlight, thaw
Key concepts:
Some plants can grow in very harsh environments. Plants that live in harsh environments have adaptations that enable them to absorb water and nutrients, and to withstand extreme climatic conditions.
Reading Strategies: Linking graphics and visual images to written text
Related resource:Lesson Plan - How Do Plants Grow Here?
Series Information:
WorldWise is a high-interest literacy program that encourages inquiry and questioning while extending knowledge in science and a range of STEM topics linked to the curriculum. This engaging program teaches reading strategies simultaneously with natural, earth and physical science concepts – reflecting the diversity of the world students live in.
Students will develop strategies and skills to read informative texts across a range of text types while they learn to become informative text writers. With an assortment of text types on offer, themes and concepts are introduced and revisited across the reading stages, building on initial concepts with increasing complexity.
WorldWise Lesson Plans support each Student Book, offering practical, systematic and easy-to-implement instructions. These visually appealing resources integrate oral language, vocabulary development, fluency and comprehension, writing and phonics.
WorldWise Investigations is a web-based tool that provides extension activities for titles in the program. It encourages exploration of content linked to curriculum outcomes in a deeper more hands-on way. Students are supported with a framework that encourages investigation and inquiry.
This series is supported by an array of teacher resources which can be obtained by visiting www.worldwise.com.au
Teacher Resources
Each WorldWise student book is supported by a corresponding Lesson Plan for teachers.
The following additional teacher resources are available:
- Curriculum outcomes
- Writing templates
- Correlation charts which provide title-level information about alignment to curriculum
These additional teacher resources can be downloaded from www.worldwisereading.com.au/teacher-resources