Spider Informational Article and Comprehension Activities
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Spider informational article that includes vocabulary cards and comprehension activities.
This Spider Informational Article and Comprehension Activities includes an article about the spiders in two formats (two-page color photos & one-page text), website resources for online articles and videos about spiders, a fact sort sheet where students can sort facts about spiders, 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 / informational writing about animals from researching facts to writing paragraphs.
Included in this Spider 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
- Google Slides with student sheets include drag and drop pieces and text boxes
Some videos are on YouTube. Make sure you can access YouTube at school.
Autumn C. (verified owner) –
My students enjoyed learning about spiders by using these worksheets. Thank you!
Teresa F. (verified owner) –
This resource was super engaging and the students loved it!
Miss Villalvazo Fourth Grade (verified owner) –
I love these articles because it helps my students get used to reading informational text and it makes it simple to follow along with the comprehension questions independently.
Heather B. (verified owner) –
A great addition to our studies on habitats and animals. These are very informational and a “one-stop shop” for learning about various animals in various habitats. Thank you!
Cynthia V. (verified owner) –
My students loved learning about spiders through these resources, love how this helps their reading for state assessments!
Paige B. (verified owner) –
I used this resource as informational to write an essay on the life cycle of a spider. We were focusing on organization and writing in time ordered events. It really helped students construct an essay in great form and chronological order.
Devonette Montez Higuera (verified owner) –
Loved, used for “Spider Week” in my class. just print and go!
Angela D. (verified owner) –
Amazing resource! My students absolutely love this resource, and engaging.
Victoria M. (verified owner) –
This resource went well with my bats and spiders unit. The texts were great and I liked the vocabulary activities too. I appreciate the work that went into creating this.
Sheri Loyd (verified owner) –
Thank you for all of the links. There is one link where they say the word “damn” as they are talking about a spider.
Kimberly P. (verified owner) –
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.
Martha L. (verified owner) –
This was worthwhile unit to purchase. My students enjoyed learning about spiders.
Brittany D. (verified owner) –
Super engaging, especially during October! My kids loved reading and learning about spiders. Plethora of activities for students to do. Highly recommended. Plan to use with next year’s students too.
Derek C. (verified owner) –
Love the picture vocabulary cards and skill pages for recall of vocab terms. Teaches reading comprehension enhancement skills (i.e. note-taking). Can be modified for a variety of ages. Enjoyed using this resource!
Katherine S. (verified owner) –
Great for research!
Renee Besse (verified owner) –
Fairly low prep and my students were really engaged with the different activities while also learning a lot about spiders.
Chris Morriss (verified owner) –
Thank you!
Kathryn Vevoda (verified owner) –
Excellent resource! I learned something new about our 8 legged … friends. My students enjoyed the activity!
Amy Laguzzi (verified owner) –
love this
Sassy Teacher Savings (verified owner) –
Thank you for this great resource
Jamie B. (verified owner) –
Great resource
Sheena Biddix (verified owner) –
Students loved this. High interest.
Heather M. (verified owner) –
This was a great resource and my kids really enjoyed.
Catherine Barth (verified owner) –
Awesome way to teach research papers and still be in control of the students’ “research.” Loved it and so did my class.
Kristi A. (verified owner) –
Kids absolutely loved this!
Jenna H. (verified owner) –
Great passage, students enjoyed reading about spiders