Peculiar Penguins Non-fiction Packet

We LOVE to learn about penguins and had the best time researching all the information to create this non-fiction text to use with your students. Here is the text from the first page of our best-selling 109-page product, Peculiar Penguins. It is full of information that your students will love to learn about! Included are lots of photos, interactive printables, beginning readers, Fact vs. Opinion activities, and art project and MORE!

“Penguins are peculiar birds. They are peculiar, or unusual, birds who waddle wherever they go on land, snow, or ice.  Even though they have wings, they can’t fly.  They are flightless birds.  But penguins are warm-blooded, lay eggs, and have feathers just like all other birds.

There are 17 different kinds of penguins.  Penguins live only in the Southern Hemisphere.  Some live in Antarctica, one of the coldest places on our planet.  But others live where the climate is warmer.

Penguins are peculiarly shaped birds. Their bodies are erect, meaning straight up.  This puts their feet directly under their bodies.  Most other birds have legs near the center of their bodies.  Those birds can bend their bodies to get food. But not penguins!  They must catch their food in the water as they dive and swim.”

Click PECULIAR PENGUINS to find this at our TPT store.

Emperor Penguins

The biggest of the bunch of the 17 different kinds of penguins is the Emperor Penguin. That’s probably how it got its name! This is a SONG easily sung the tune Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. This product also has a lot of photos, pocket chart cards, graphic organizers, writing papers, a vocabulary chart, interactive printables, beginning readers, and a penguin life cycle worksheet. Sooooo much to add to your study of Penguins. Click EMPEROR PENGUINS to link to this product.

All About Penguins

Of course we need ANOTHER song when learning about penguins. This informative song is also sung to the tune “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’. It is loaded with photographs and comes with a mini-movie of us singing the lyrics as the pages of the book turn. Show this on a big screen and your students will be singing along in no time! Also included are Beginning Readers, interactive printables, mini photo posters and even more! Click ALL ABOUT PENGUINS to link to this product.

Penguin Close Reading Paragraphs and Activities

Close reading is a necessary skill and needs to be modeled and taught as students are developing reading skills. These paragraphs can be read together with your students and some they can read on their own. There are comprehension questions where they answer in written form. You can model the techniques of analyzing text to gain information. There are supportive activities to practice the skill of close reading. This 70-page resource will really enhance the love of learning about penguins with your class. Click PENGUINS READ, THINK and WRITE to view this one.

Penguin Non-fiction Beginning Readers

One can never have enough Beginning Readers for our students who are developing early literacy skills. This set of Non-Fiction Beginning Readers have patterned sentences, supportive pictures and extension activities to go with each of the 4 books. They come in color for in-ckass use and Black and White for Take-Home book boxes. This is a great addtion to your Penguin Study! Click Penguin Non-fiction Books.

Freebie

Here is a song about Emperor Penguins sung to the tune I’m a Little Teapot. Click HERE to find the downloadable file at our JKSingables store .

We hope you either begin a study of Penguins with your students OR find some of our resources helpful! We LOVE learning about Penguins with our students…and they find them pretty fascinating too!

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