Hippo Informational Article and Comprehension Activities
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This Hippo Informational Article and Comprehension Activities includes an article about hippos in two formats, website resources for online articles and videos about the hippo a fact sort sheet where students can sort facts about the hippo, a variety of note-taking sheets, comprehension activities, and mini-report pages.
This Hippo Informational Article and Comprehension Activities includes an article about hippos in two formats (two-page color photos & one-page text), website resources for online articles and videos about the hippo a fact sort sheet where students can sort facts about the hippo, a variety of note-taking sheets, comprehension activities, and mini-report pages.
Use these articles as a resource when researching and writing about animals. Read the article, look at a variety of web sites, and watch a couple of videos to gather all our facts about the animal. Once students have the facts, sort the facts into categories and then write a research report.
This article works well with my Informational Writing Tools packet that scaffolds expository or informational writing about animals from researching facts to writing paragraphs.
Included in this Hippos resource are:
- Vocabulary Cards with key terms from the reading passage
- Informational Article in two formats (with and without photos)
- Websites for additional research: QR Codes & Google Site
- Graphic Organizers for note-taking
- Comprehension Activities such as short answer and cloze reading
- Fact Sort for students can organize the facts
- Summary Page
- Writing Pages for a mini-report
Some videos are on YouTube. Make sure you can access YouTube at school.
Also available is an African Animals BUNDLE that includes elephants, cheetah, chimpanzee, elephant shrew, giraffe, grant’s gazelle, hippo, jackal, lion, rhinoceros, and zebra. Purchasing the BUNDLE will save you from purchasing each animal individually.
The videos are on YouTube, so be sure you can access them at school.
Alexis C. –
Great resource, easy to download and use, highly recommend!
Hop Into 2nd Grade –
We "adopted" a hippo from our local zoo- so this was a fun addition to learn about him!
Emily F. –
A great resource used to help guide a research project. Students enjoyed learning about Hippos. Very user friendly!
Amber S. –
My students loved using these worksheets to learn about Hippos. While it was a bit harder for the younger students in my class, it gave opportunity for the older students to engage with the younger students and help them as though it was a project. They not only learned about hippos, but it also incorporated a lesson on leadership, and group work.
Jennifer M. –
This resource was great for National Hippo Day. My students enjoyed all the activities.