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Informative Texts About Animals

Read the information about koalas. Then explore how informative texts work and create a short fact file of your own. Use facts, not made-up events.

Koalas: tree-dwelling marsupials

Koalas are marsupials that live in forests and woodlands in eastern Australia. A marsupial is a kind of mammal. A baby koala is called a joey. After it is born, the tiny joey spends several months growing in its mother’s pouch. Koalas eat mainly eucalyptus leaves. These leaves do not give them much energy, so koalas rest or sleep for much of the day. They have strong claws and rough pads on their feet to help them grip tree trunks and branches. Koalas are not bears, even though people sometimes call them koala bears.

1.What is the main purpose of the koala text: to tell a made-up adventure, to give information, or to persuade readers to buy something?

To tell a made-up adventure
To give information
To persuade readers to buy something

2.Find one fact in the text about what koalas eat. Write it in your own words.

3.What does the word “marsupial” mean in the text?

A mammal whose young develop in a pouch
An animal that lives only in water
An animal that eats insects

4.Match each koala body feature to what it helps the koala do.

Strong claws
Rough pads on its feet
A pouch

Carry and protect its growing joey
Grip tree trunks and branches
Grip tree trunks and branches

5.True or false? Koalas are bears.

TrueFalse

6.Complete the informative sentence with a fact from the text: “Koalas rest or sleep for much of the day because …”

Plan your own animal fact file

Choose an Australian animal you know about, such as a wombat, platypus, emu or kangaroo. Use facts you already know to answer the next questions. If you are unsure of a fact, choose another one you know.

7.Name your animal and write two facts about its body, food or habitat. For example: “A wombat has strong claws. It digs burrows.”

8.Write a short informative paragraph about your chosen animal. Begin with a sentence that names or introduces the animal. Add at least two facts, and finish with another useful fact. Do not turn it into a story.