Shell Facts
Shelled Creatures
Shell Uses
Text Features
Text Vocabulary
100
Can shelled certain animals breathe under water?
Yes
100
A crustacean creature that has three legs and two arm-like appendages with claws.
What is a crab
100
The hobby that is what shells are most used for
What is shell collecting or shell hunting?
100
An image demonstrating and showing something having to do with the topic
What is a photograph?
100
Title
What identifies the topic of the text?
200
What shells grow pearls?
What is oysters?
200
A creature whose spine is fused with its shell, slow on land but fast in water, and can hide in its shell if it feels threatened.
What is a turtle
200
A collection of ground shell pieces and stone shards made small and lines beaches.
What is sand?
200
A hand-drawn image that relates to the subject.
What is an illustration?
200
Index
What is a section of the book that tells readers what where they can find specific words or subjects.
300
Shells that catch other shells, pebbles, or even glass that lives deep in warm water climates.
What are carrier shells?
300
A crab-like crustacean with a tail, eight legs, two claws, and a pair of antennae.
What is a lobster?
300
What is the technique of putting something in an oyster so it becomes a pearl called?
What is pearlification
300
An image labeled to give the viewer a better understanding of the topic.
What is a diagram
300
Glossary
What is a section of the book that defines certain words found in the text
400
A shell can grow with the mollusk inside.
What is true
400
A crab that has a coral-like outer shell used for camouflage.
What is a horrid crab?
400
A shell that is highly prized by collectors and is found off the southeast coast of the US?
What is the Junonia shell?
400
Words that are explaining a part of an image, used in diagrams
What are labels?
400
Bold print
What shows what words are important
500
Certain marine worms can create their own shells by using mucus and sand.
What is true.
500
A shelled creature whose tentacled head extends from the shell, so that it isn't ever fully covered.
What is a nautilus
500
What turtles make the most valued tortoiseshell products?
What is a hawksbill turtle
500
A word that is important or later explained in the glossary or wordbank
What is italicized?
500
Fact box/side bar
What gives extra information and facts on a topic
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