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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Penguins

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Use Penguins by Anne Schreiber to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Explore the world of penguins by reading and working with this high-interest, nonfiction text by Anne Schreiber. In addition to the amazing facts and beautiful photographs, using this anchor text and resource set pairing teaches students how to comprehend the features of nonfiction text as they practice comprehension strategies like retelling and summarizing, making connections, visualizing, determining importance, and asking questions.
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Asking Questions with Penguins

Turn natural curiosity about these amazing creatures into an asking questions mini lesson. Penguins by Anne Schreiber presents a wide variety of interesting facts, using several different features of nonfiction text, to get readers ready to wonder about these cold-weather creatures.
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RI.3.1,RI.3.4,RI.3.10,RF.3.3,RF.3.4,SL.3.1c,SL.3.1d,SL.3.2,SL.3.3,W.3.8,L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
3.7E,3.13H,3.13E,3.13C,3.13A,3.9D(iii),3.9D(ii),3.9D(i),3.7G,3.7F,3.1A,3.7D,3.7C,3.7B,3.6I,3.6B,3.6A,3.1E,3.1D,3.1C
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Determining Importance with Penguins

Headings, captions, photographs, and text all work together to convey meaning in a nonfiction text such as Anne Schreiber's Penguins. This determining importance mini lesson will prompt students to use all of these features when thinking about what information is most important to remember.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RI.3.2,RI.3.5,RI.3.6,RI.3.7,RI.3.10,RF.3.3,RF.3.4,SL.3.1d,SL.3.2,SL.3.3,W.3.8,L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
3.7D,3.13H,3.13E,3.13C,3.13A,3.10A,3.9D(iii),3.9D(ii),3.9D(i),3.7G,3.7F,3.7E,3.1A,3.7C,3.7B,3.7A,3.6I,3.6G,3.6E,3.6B,3.6A,3.1E,3.1D,3.1C
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Making Connections with Penguins

Increase student understanding of the material included in Penguins by Anne Schreiber by incorporating this making connections mini lesson. Readers who use something they already are familiar with to make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections improve their comprehension.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RI.3.1,RI.3.4,RI.3.7,RI.3.10,RF.3.3,RF.3.4,SL.3.1d,SL.3.2,SL.3.3,W.3.8,L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
3.7D,3.13H,3.13E,3.13C,3.9E(iii),3.9E(ii),3.9E(i),3.7G,3.7F,3.7E,3.1A,3.7C,3.7B,3.7A,3.6I,3.6E,3.6A,3.1E,3.1D,3.1C
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Retelling & Summarizing with Penguins

When reading a nonfiction text like Penguins by Anne Schreiber, it is important for students to pause and think about what they have learned. This retelling and summarizing mini lesson will show students how to use breaks in the text and features of nonfiction text to help them remember important ideas.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RI.3.2,RL.3.4,RI.3.7,RI.3.10,RF.3.3,RF.3.4,SL.3.1d,SL.3.2,SL.3.3,W.3.8,L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
3.7E,3.13H,3.13E,3.13C,3.9D(iii),3.9D(ii),3.9D(i),3.8D,3.7G,3.7F,3.1A,3.7D,3.7C,3.7B,3.6I,3.6G,3.6A,3.1E,3.1D,3.1C
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Visualizing with Penguins

As readers practice visualizing with Anne Schreiber's Penguins and this focused mini lesson, they will be able to use the full-color photographs and other images (including maps and diagrams) to check their thinking.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RI.3.1,RI.3.5,RI.3.7,RI.3.10,RF.3.3,RF.3.4,SL.3.1d,SL.3.2,SL.3.3,W.3.8,L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
3.7C,3.13H,3.13E,3.13C,3.10C,3.9D(iii),3.9D(ii),3.9D(i),3.7F,3.7E,3.1A,3.7B,3.7A,3.6I,3.6E,3.6D,3.6A,3.1E,3.1D,3.1C
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Suffixes with Penguins

 
 

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Penguins by Anne Schreiber as a springboard for instruction focused on suffixes.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how words ending in -er and -est are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with suffixes.

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RF.3.3,RF.3.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Penguins

This set of vocabulary development resources for Penguins highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
L.3.4a,L.3.5b,L.3.6
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3.7E,3.7F,3.3A,3.3B
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Comprehension Assessment with Penguins

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Penguins.
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Running Record with Penguins

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Penguins. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Features of Nonfiction Text with Penguins

 
 
The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.
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Asking Questions with Penguins (Spanish)

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Determining Importance with Penguins (Spanish)

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Making Connections with Penguins (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Penguins (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Penguins (Spanish)

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Features of Nonfiction Text with Penguins (Spanish)

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Title: Penguins
Author: Anne Schreiber
Genre: Nonfiction
Themes: Winter, Animals & Insects
ISBN: 9781426304279
Publisher's Summary:
They waddled into stardom in National Geographic's March of the Penguins film. These guys are now nature's ROCK STARS! If you're age 5, you're probably as tall as an Emperor. But why do they throw up so much? March this way, and find out all!
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