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This activity is devised to demonstrate how literacy and creativity can be achieved through all disciplines including science. Students are asked to write about the community and surroundings of one of the animal props that they have chosen in class.
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Wilson, J. (2016). Creating Characters through the Use of Vocabulary Words. In: Dowdy, J.K., Gao, Y. (eds) Pump It Up. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-612-5_2
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