Have fun with penguins this winter! I just love designing with these cute penguin graphics. I also love learning about the little guys right along with my students. This penguin literacy unit is for both fiction and nonfiction. Your students will learn all about penguins while hitting many of the common core standards.
Page Content(s)
2 nonfiction graphic organizer that can be used with a variety of informational text (KWL and nonfiction facts)
1 informational writing – How to draw a penguin
3 ‘Hook the Reader’ introductory writing prompts (question hook, setting hook, and opinion hook)
1 penguin species word search (great to use after researching penguin species online)
2 penguin venn diagrams (comparing and contrasting penguins to polar bears and other birds)
2 penguin poems (one for searching for verbs and one for searching for nouns)
1 penguin writing template for published pieces
Page Content(s)
2 nonfiction graphic organizer that can be used with a variety of informational text (KWL and nonfiction facts)
1 informational writing – How to draw a penguin
3 ‘Hook the Reader’ introductory writing prompts (question hook, setting hook, and opinion hook)
1 penguin species word search (great to use after researching penguin species online)
2 penguin venn diagrams (comparing and contrasting penguins to polar bears and other birds)
2 penguin poems (one for searching for verbs and one for searching for nouns)
1 penguin writing template for published pieces
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Your students will have fun researching and learning all about penguins while compiling their very own penguin book with nonfiction text features (table of contents, headings, subheadings, diagrams and labels, photographs and captions, maps, and glossaries).
Page Content(s)
1 cover page
1 table of contents page
4 fact pages for documenting research (all with headings and one with a subheading)
1 map page
1 diagram page (be sure to have your students label their diagram)
1 photograph page (the bottom has an area for a caption)
1 glossary page (students can bold words throughout making their book to refer back to when creating their glossary).
Page Content(s)
1 cover page
1 table of contents page
4 fact pages for documenting research (all with headings and one with a subheading)
1 map page
1 diagram page (be sure to have your students label their diagram)
1 photograph page (the bottom has an area for a caption)
1 glossary page (students can bold words throughout making their book to refer back to when creating their glossary).
