Description
Worms Are Wonderful by Giselle Clarkson is an engaging non-fiction text that blends scientific explanation with humour and visual storytelling to explore the hidden world of earthworms. Through clear facts, labelled diagrams, and playful illustrations, Clarkson explains how worms live, move, breathe, and survive in their environments, while also introducing readers to scientific ideas such as species classification and scientific naming. The text situates worms within the wider natural world, showing how even small, often-overlooked creatures play an important role in ecosystems and soil health. Lively, informative, and accessible, the text supports students to develop curiosity and respect for living things through close observation and scientific thinking.
The text is ideal for integrated learning across literacy and science, supporting inquiry into habitats, adaptations, classification, and care for living organisms in the natural world.
This pack contains wide range of response activities including:
- A guided reading plan exploring key literacy elements including inference and deduction, language use, making connection and text organisation, along with key questioning to promote emotional intelligence, metacognition and compassionate inquiry.
- An independent learning contract complete with explainer videos for activity clarity
- A wide range of response activities to support developing and embedding key literacy skills including sentence and word work, spelling, and cloze activities.
Curriculum Phase: Phase 3
Year Level: Year 5
English (NZC Levels 3–4): reading for meaning and critical thinking, analysing author purpose and visual language, understanding explanatory and informational texts, synthesising ideas from text and images, building scientific vocabulary
Science – Living World: living things and their environments, adaptations and survival, classification and scientific names, habitats, care and respect for organisms
Text type: Non-fiction, informational text, scientific explanation, illustrated article
Key words include: adaptations, earthworms, habitats, reproduction, scientific names, species, worms, ecosystems, classification, living world, observation, care for nature
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