Blue Whale Informational Article
$3.00
This Blue Whale Informational Article and Comprehension Activities resource includes an article in two formats, website resources for online articles and videos, a fact sort sheet, a variety of note-taking sheets, comprehension activities, and mini-report pages.
This Blue Whale Informational Article and Comprehension Activities includes an article about blue whales in two formats (two-page color photos & one-page text), website resources for online articles and videos about the blue whale a fact sort sheet where students can sort facts about the blue whale, 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 Blue Whale 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 Antarctic Animals BUNDLE that includes albatross, blue whale, elephant seal, emperor penguin, leopard seal, and orca. Purchasing the BUNDLE will save you 50% off purchasing each animal individually.
Catherine C. –
My students loved this resource to develop their informational writing skills while learning about the blue whale!
Katherine J. –
Just what I wanted
Casey O. –
Perfect activity for my ESE self-contained students!
Rebecca Bowman –
This file worked very well with my first grade students. Thank you.
Kimberly P. –
My students love the informational reading and the note taking worksheets that go along with each animal. We use these to write our individual animal reports. Parents like them because all the information is in one source and they can easily help their children find the information needed to write a great report. We use parts of it as homework - the vocabulary sheets - to create a glossary for our report and the cut/paste to review what we have learned and make sure we did not miss any important information in our notes. Parents can help complete both of these at home and then we do the reading and note taking at school and eventually put all of it together to create a report.