All About Sharks with Informational Texts and Shark Week Activities

Host your own shark week with engaging and fun common core based activities! Students love to read about this high interest topic. These shark comprehension activities and printables are fun for 2nd and 3rd grade students. Comprehension, vocabulary and close reading activities to go with shark nonfiction/informational texts and websites. Trading cards engage students in finding information and comparing information with friends with the "Shark Hunt" activity. Links for more research are provided. Nonfiction reading, writing, comprehension, trading cards, language arts, writing, craftivity and research.

Can be used in guided reading, shared reading, listening centers, literacy circles. Research can provide group work or independent research skills practice.

18 activities to practice nonfiction skills and comprehension in a fun and engaging way:

Online Resources with Clickable Links
Anticipation Guide/Activities
Sharks Can, Have, Are
Informational Text (for close/shared reading)
Response Questions for Informational Text
Using Context clues
4 Days of Vocabulary Practice
Vocabulary Posters
Shark Trading Cards
Shark Hunt (for use with trading cards.)
All About Sharks Nonfiction Interactive Mini-Book (Create Table of Contents, Titles, Headings, Captions and Glossary. Different Kinds of Sharks, Label the shark.)
Nonfiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt
Nonfiction Book Review
Sentence Scramble Center
Shark Fact/Myth Sort
Shark Categories Word Sort (Language Arts)
Shark Descriptive Writing (Language Arts)
Shark Craftivity

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