Rooted in Reading: Penguin Reading and Research Activities

Description

In need of a new way to improve reading comprehension in your classroom? These weeklong winter reading activities center around winter animal research for Penguins! You’ll get a week’s worth of lesson plans to take the burden of planning for comprehension, vocabulary, and student-led research off of your plate.

The following books are used for these read-aloud lessons and follow-up activities (These should be purchased separately):

Flight School by Lita Judge and Penguin Problems by Jory John

There is one week of lesson plans and activities included in this unit:

• Daily lesson plans for one week
• Comprehension questioning cards for the teacher
• Interactive notebook comprehension printables (Focus on comparing two texts, comparing characters, learning a lesson, story structure, analyzing pictures)
• Fiction and informational passages with questions
• Nonfiction Reader: Emperor Penguins
• Comprehension quiz
• Anchor Charts (Emperor Penguins Schema Chart and Comparing Texts/Character Charts with printable headings)
• Vocabulary cards
• Vocabulary Match It Up, Vocabulary Writing Prompt Layered Flapbook, Vocabulary Spin and Cover
• Vocabulary quiz and printable
• Craft: Penguin Paper Topper
• Directed Drawing: Emperor Penguin Chick
• Writing pages
• Research: Students will study and learn about penguins (with the website, book, and video links, graphic organizers, and KWL activity), distinguish true from false statements, and collect all of their research on a penguin-shaped booklet

To find our other Rooted in Reading units click below:
THE BUNDLE
ROOTED IN READING AUGUST
ROOTED IN READING SEPTEMBER
ROOTED IN READING OCTOBER
ROOTED IN READING NOVEMBER
ROOTED IN READING DECEMBER
ROOTED IN READING JANUARY
ROOTED IN READING FEBRUARY
ROOTED IN READING MARCH
ROOTED IN READING APRIL
ROOTED IN READING MAY

Looking for more Penguin Fun? Check out below:
Waddle With Me: a Penguin Unit
It’s a Penguin Party: Math Stations
Rooted in Reading: Penguin Palooza