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Thoughtful Learning: Minilesson: Asking and Answering the 5 W's and H Questions
Students will learn the "5 W's and H questions" needed to comprehend a news story. Then students will apply these question words [who, what, where, why, when, and how] to real news stories and to events in their own lives.
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Lexiconic Resources: 5 W's and How Chart
This downloadable graphic organizer will assist students in taking notes about a news story. Students will use this resource to identify answers to the following five W's and H questions: What happened? Who was there? When did it happen?...
Media Smarts
Media Smarts: How to Recognize False Content Online: The New 5 Ws [Pdf]
A tip sheet to help both students and adults learn how to test online content for validity.
Can Teach
Can Teach: How to Write a 5 W Poem
This site describes how a 5W poem is a good way to teach children to identify and focus on the five W's of a story or an event. Lesson plan indicated for 1st grade and above.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Five W's
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a graphic organizer that helps students identify the 5 W's-- Who- What-When-Where-Why-- and How. This is helpful in summarizing reading selections, historical events and creating news...
Education Development Center
Education Development Center: Tv411: Reading Structure of a News Story
Interactive lesson explains the content and organization of newspaper articles. Includes self-scoring exercises for practicing identifying the five W's (who, what, when, where, and why) in a series of brief news articles and a...
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: 5 Ws Chart [Pdf]
This site from Houghton Mifflin Company provides a simple, reproducible chart to help students gather details of Who, What, When, Where, and Why. This could be used as a reading comprehension tool, or as prewriting for expository writing.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: 5 W's Diagrams
Enchanted Learning provides several examples of graphic organizers that can be used for gathering Who, What, Where, When, and Why information, either for reading comprehension or prewriting. These template suggestions can only be printed...
Quia
Quia: Rags to Riches: The Five W's: Version 2
In this exercise/quiz, students select the correct answer to who, what, when, where, and why questions in short passages.
Quia
Quia: Rags to Riches: The Five W's: Version 1
This game focuses on identifying the who, what, when, where, and why, in short passages.
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Woodward English: Questions Words
Woodward English: Questions Words uses pictures and words to answer the 5 W's and H questions.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Story Grammar Training
This intervention emphasizes the importance of metacognitive or active reading strategies to improve comprehension. It directs students' attention on story structure by teaching them to ask five "wh" questions about the settings and...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Story Writing With Arthur
This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...
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Freeology: Free Graphic Organizers
Blank templates of all types of graphic organizers from Venn Diagrams to Vocabulary Sketches are available for free at this resource.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Event Map [Pdf]
Teachers will learn how to use event maps with students. They will learn how to implement event maps with literary and informational texts; measure progress with event maps; and find research to support event maps. A reproducible event...
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Writing Effective Leads
Do you know your news elements? Can you spot the most important one? This site helps you spot different kinds of leads, and which news element they emphasize. Includes an exercise for use in your own classroom.
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Live Worksheets: Question Words
This interactive worksheet features interrogative sentences with missing question words. Students will type in one of following words or phrases into each sentence: who, what, where, why, when, how, and more. Students will then submit...
Read Works
Read Works: Our Constitution
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text giving facts about the Constitution of the United States. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Pumpkin Patch: A Collection of Pumpkin Poetry
An awesome collection of student-generated poetry about pumpkins. The site is fully illustrated with student work.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Adverbs
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart clarifies the 5 W's of adverb usage. It is student friendly with a lot of interactive aspects.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sea Creatures
This video segment from Nature features various sea creatures. [5:52]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Jane Jacobs
Learn about Jane Jacobs, an activist who worked to save the neighborhoods of New York City in this video segment from New York Voices. [5:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Bamboo Mountain
In this video segment from Nature, researchers study pandas in an effort to halt their decline in population. [5:37]
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Pbs Learning Media: Social and Historical Perspectives of Dogs
Learn more about the theory that dogs evolved from wolves in this video from Nature. [5:03]
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