Animal Defense Mechanisms: Ostriches
School: PS 89
City/State: Bronx, New York, NY
Grade(s): 4
Subject(s): English Language Arts
Type(s): Informative/Explanatory
Writing Assignment Description
In EL Education's ELA Curriculum Grade 4 Module 2 Unit 2, students continue to build expertise about their animal and its defense mechanisms, writing the first part of the final performance task--an informative piece describing their animal?s physical characteristics, habitat, predators, and defense mechanisms. With their new knowledge about animal defenses from Unit 1, students read informational texts closely, using the same research notebook to synthesize information about their animal.