teaching resource

Insect-Themed Flashcards and Writing Prompts

Updated: 14 Jun 2023

Inspire young entomologists to read and write about insects with minibeast writing prompts and word wall cards.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 1 - 2

Curriculum

ACELA1454

Understand the use of vocabulary in everyday contexts as well as a growing number of school contexts, including appropriate use of formal and informal terms of address in different contextsElaborationslearning forms of address for visitors and how to...
ACELY1661

Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagramsElaborationsref...
ACELA1470

Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purposeElaborationsinterpreting new terminology drawing on prior knowledge, analogies and connec...
ACELY1671

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose...

teaching resource

Insect-Themed Flashcards and Writing Prompts

Updated: 14 Jun 2023

Inspire young entomologists to read and write about insects with minibeast writing prompts and word wall cards.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 1 - 2

Inspire young entomologists to read and write about insects with minibeast writing prompts and word wall cards.

🐞Go Buggy for Insect Vocabulary and Writing Prompts for Kids

Get ready to buzz into the classroom and turn your most reluctant writers into busy bees with an engaging insect-themed writing activity!

This resource contains two primary components. First, we’ve put together an illustrated insect vocabulary word wall display. There are 24 vocabulary cards with bright images to help inspire your students to use academic vocabulary. Secondly, you’ll find a set of writing prompts. The writing prompts in this resource are a combination of narrative and informational texts. Prompts included are:

Write a story about a day you were magically turned into one of the bugs below. Draw a picture when you finish.
Choose one insect to describe in your writing. Draw a picture when you finish.
Choose one of the insects. Write about where they live and where you can find them. Draw a picture when you finish.

This resource would be a perfect accompaniment to a Biological Sciences study of minibeasts.

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This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a Teach Starter collaborator.

Curriculum

ACELA1454

Understand the use of vocabulary in everyday contexts as well as a growing number of school contexts, including appropriate use of formal and informal terms of address in different contextsElaborationslearning forms of address for visitors and how to...
ACELY1661

Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagramsElaborationsref...
ACELA1470

Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purposeElaborationsinterpreting new terminology drawing on prior knowledge, analogies and connec...
ACELY1671

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose...

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