Armadillo Reading Passage & Comprehension Activities Animal Nonfiction Research

This Armadillo Reading Passage and Comprehension Activities resource is the perfect way to get your students excited about learning about these amazing animals! It includes an article about armadillos in two formats (two-page color photos & one-page text), website resources for online articles and videos about armadillos, a fact sort sheet where students can sort facts about armadillos, a variety of note-taking sheets, comprehension activities, and mini-report pages. With this package, you can help your students learn all about armadillos today!

Use the animal article as a resource when researching and writing about animals:

• Read the article with your students
• Research the animal using additional websites
• Watch the videos to gather facts about the animal
• Sort the facts into categories
• Write a research report

See this blog post for more information about how I use this resource to teach informational writing.

Included in this Armadillo 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
• Google Site with links to additional websites and videos

Some videos are on YouTube. Make sure you can access YouTube at school.

This article works well with my Informational Writing Tools packet that scaffolds expository or informational writing about animals from researching facts to writing paragraphs.

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This article works well with my Informational Writing Tools packet that scaffolds expository/informational writing about animals from researching facts to writing paragraphs.

The videos are on YouTube, so be sure you can access them at school.

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