Echidna

Does it involve real life animals or animal characters (ones with names and personalities?)

• Real life animals

• Animal characters

What would this text help you do?

• Give someone information about the topic

• Tell someone a bedtime story

Where would you find this text in the library ?

• Fiction

• Reference

Is this text more like a TV animated cartoon or a TV documentary?

• Cartoon

• Documentary

What is the title of this text?

• The Echidna

• Emily the Echidna loves to go skydiving

• Echidna and other animals

Which words give the reader information that describes the Echidna?

• Fluffy feathers

• Blue and green

• Coarse hair, spines, brown or black, long slender snouts, sticky tongue, four short stout legs and large claws

What factual information does this report give to the reader?

• Echidna's love ice cream

• Information about what Echidnas like to do at night

• Echidna's love discos

• Information about appearance, diet and habitat

How does the title of the text help us predict it is not a story?

• The title does not say Emily the echidna goes skydiving

• It is a story because I love Echidna's

The echidna is also known as?

• The pink panther

• The spiny anteater

• Superman

• The porcupine

A monotreme is

• A giraffe

• A fish

• A mammal that lays eggs and feeds its babies milk