Informational Text Structure Worksheet About Spiders

Non-fiction spider passage at two reading levels, organised around five questions: what spiders are, what they look like, where they live, what they eat and what is special about them.
Year levels
Years 1–3
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21
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Updated Sep 18, 2026

Subject
Strategies, Speech Therapy, Animals, Earth Sciences, Handwriting, Biology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Special Education Needs (SEN), Reading Comprehension, Life Sciences, ESL, Special Resources, Writing, Science, Reading, Language Development, English
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Esl, Reading
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Informational Text Basic Structure Nonfiction Simple Passage 1 for Beginners :

This 20 - page PDF teaching resource helps early primary students learn how to read and write basic informational paragraphs in English . It has two (2) reading levels that scaffold instruction on the typical structure of English nonfiction writing .

Level 1 .

It focuses on answering simple questions about a topic in 1-2 sentences .

Level 2 .

It answers the same questions as in Level 1, only in fuller sentence structures .

Both levels guide students to compile the questions and answers effortlessly into a cohesive informational paragraph .

The passages cover science topics like animals, their looks and their habitats . The final page provides relevant images for crafts and projects .

This educational resource can be utilised for homework, autonomous work, education centre exercises, morning work, relief teacher plans, or as a instructional tool for you and your students . Use the passages for individual practice, small groups, or whole class instruction to build literacy skills . The variety of activities and self-checking passages make this resource versatile for diverse english learners .

It has also proven to be very effective for students that struggle with organising data or demonstrate low attention levels .

A pdf with 20 pages / task cards .

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Learning objectives

  • Read short non-fiction statements about spiders

  • Recognise how answers to five topic questions combine into an informational paragraph

Skills covered

  • Non-fiction reading — reading spider facts sorted by five topic questions

  • Handwriting — tracing each spider fact in thin, dotted and outlined letters

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