Penguin Shared Research and Writing Project
The Kindergarten Core Standards, task students the opportunity to participate in shared research and writing projects through exploration of topics using books, authors and media. This meshed with the core standard of attention to key details in text, makes for a fun learning experience for your students. (Common Core Standards W.K.2 W.K.7 W.K.8).
After introducing the topic of penguins, I ask students what they already know about penguins and invite them to learn more about those fascinating birds by completing a research project together.
To begin the research, I go for one of my favorite non fiction titles on Penguins, published by National Geographic. Before reading the title, I instruct students to listen carefully to the information and be ready, at the end of each page, to identify key details in the text.
With a pad of sticky notes close at hand, I begin reading page one of the text. At the end of the page, I ask about two or three students to tell me details, write them on the sticky notes, and then add them to a poster of a penguin that I have hanging in full view of the students. Page-by-page, I read and then record the details until the book is completed.
Next, we review all of the information that we have gathered and then move those sticky notes to a “Have - Can- Are” graphic organizer (much like this dinosaur one). At this completion, we then review all the gathered facts in each category — referring back to the anchor word each time.
Students then write about penguins using the gathered information and create an illustrated drawing of a penguin. We staple all of these individual creations together to create a shared research book! Kids love to read the book over and over again.
If you want to take the topic of penguins further, check out our thematic unit and book study products below.
Penguin Book Study and Writing Activities
This penguin book study unit is a great way to meet important common core standards in literacy and informational text using the text Tacky The Penguin by Lynn Munsinger.
All lessons are easily adaptable to students from Pre-K through 1st grade. The lessons are fun and engaging and cover many areas of language arts. All lessons can be carried over to more than one day, depending on the time you have available.
If you don’t have a copy of Tacky The Penguin, or a nonfiction Penguin book, they can be found readily on Youtube.
Contents Include:
Lesson #1 Prediction
Lesson #2 Inference
Lesson #3 Retell
Lesson #4 Genre
Lesson #5 Extend
Lesson #6 Celebrate
© Kathy Crane Kindergarten Kiosk
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Arctic and Antarctic Regions Thematic Unit.
You will love this unit as you and your classroom or homeschool students learn about the Polar Animals that live in Arctic or Antarctic Regions such as penguins, polar bears, walrus and more?
Teach the academic Core Standards with confidence by using these strategically linked cross-curricular, thematic activities. You and your students will love them! They are classroom tested with perfect results!
Contents include:
Shared Reading Activities:
The Whale & The Penguin: Group Poetry Activity
Arctic Friends: Retell a Story
Literacy Activities
Glacier Bay: Phoneme Segmentation
Glacier Melt Down: Fluently Naming Alphabet Sounds
March of the Penguins: Alphabet Letter Fluency
Arctic Hunt: Nonsense Word Fluency
Walrus Waddle & Walk: Writing Beginning Sounds
Igloo Match: Matching Upper and Lowercase Letters
Arctic Animal Names: Writing Missing Letters
Math Activities:
Polar Bears in the Cave: Counting On
Penguin Playground: Adding to and Taking Away
Inuit Count: Joining Sets
Rescuing Penguins: Identifying Teen Numbers
Polar Bear Fishing: Comparing Quantities
Comparing Igloos: Comparing Written Numerals
Inuit Friends: Composing Numbers
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
Arctic Word Wall
The Penguins
Polar Animals
Label It
Guided Reading Books
Arctic Friends
Class Made Book
Arctic Friends
Art Projects
Walrus
My Inuit Friend
Penguin
Science
Ice Race: Exploring Properties of Water
North Pole Facts?South Pole Facts
Blubber Experiment:How Polar Animals Keep Warm
Songs
North and South
Arctic Friends
© Kathy Crane Kindergarten Kiosk
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