Penguin Activities Non-fiction Text Features Comprehension Unit Informative Text
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Penguins are such a fun unit to teach your students. In this file you will receive 280+ pages of penguin fun. There are 5 featured stories, Penguins! by Gibbons, National Geographic for Kids Penguins, All about Penguins (paper book included), Tacky the Penguin and Tacky the Emperor by Helen Lester. Each story feature comes with anchor charts and loads of reading strategies. The focus for this unit is inferencing however your students will learn so much more. There are several different writing ideas to teach informative, narrative, opinion, and descriptive writing. Also included are penguin math games, lots of crafts, and word work activities. In addition, you will receive a weekly lesson plan framework to help you plan.This is now part of my 40 week guided reading with a purpose series. This unit can be used for distance learning and google classroom with the new TpT digital tool.
*Please note that this packet does include activities from my Tacky the Penguin and Tacky the Emperor units. If you own those products, this may not be the product for you*
Penguins:
- Word Work:
- Alphabetizing
- Word Search
- Syllables
- Telling vs. Asking Sentences
- Fact vs. Opinion
Posters:
- Can/Have/Are
- KWL
- Schema
- Penguin Parade Poster for Crafts
Vocabulary:
- 1 that covers all
- 5 individual pages focusing on one word a day
Non-fiction Informational Text
- All About Penguins:Copy 2 per page
- Non-fiction hunt checklist
- Headings
- Clarify Meaning
- Main Idea and Details
- Table of Contents activity page
- Headings activity page
- Glossary activity page
- Facts and supporting details activity page
- Before and After Learning pages
- Text Standards included are 1.2,1.4, 1.5, &; 1.8. Your children will work on Details, Clarifying Meaning, Headings, Table of Contents, Glossaries, and Facts with Supporting Details.
Writing
- Web
- Informational Text Writing
- Opinion Pre-writing
- Opinion Writing
- Opinion Survey
- Can,Have,Are chart
- Modified Writing
- Writer's Checklist
Penguin Word Wall-colorful
Portable Penguin Word Wall
Crafts:
- Standing Penguin
- Macaroni Penguin
- Tie Penguin
Other Literature Connections:
- Penguins by Gibbons
- Tacky the Penguin by Lester
- Tacky the Emperor Penguin by Lester
Some other fun ways to connect....
©Megan Mitchell
