Great White Shark Informational Article and Comprehension Activities
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Great White Shark informational article that includes vocabulary cards and comprehension activities.
This Great White Shark Informational Article and Comprehension Activities includes an article about great white sharks in two formats (two-page color photos & one-page text), website resources for online articles and videos about great white sharks, a fact sort sheet where students can sort facts about great white sharks, 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 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 / informational writing about animals from researching facts to writing paragraphs.
Included in this Great White Shark resource are:
- Vocabulary Cards with key terms from the reading passage
- Vocabulary Activities – matching with and without photos & Frayer Model
- 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.
Shelby N. –
Great Resource that aligns with standards and curriculum
Vanessa S –
This was a great resource for my third grade students!
Anne B. –
We were reading Odder by Katherine Applegate. The otters encounter a great white, so we used this as a paired text. Kids LOVED it! Thank you!
Alexis C. –
Great resource, easy to download and use, highly recommend!
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.