Tompson Solutions
Be a Reporter (The 5 W's and an H)
Teach your class how to investigate research sources. You can start out with this presentation, which lays out a easy strategy for asking questions and taking down answers that cover the important information.
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Cause and Effect Worksheet 2
Why does Scout fear Boo? Why does George kill Lennie? Whether in literature or life, helping young learners recognize the relationship between actions and consequences is an important lesson. Have your class match twelve observable...
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Who? What? Why? - Using Interrogative Pronouns
Interrogative pronouns are an important part of learning the interrogative sentence form. Middle schoolers learn about using interrogative pronouns in sentence writing, and use what they read to answer the nineteen questions on the...
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Newspaper Report
Discuss the way to write a newspaper article using this presentation. With a series of slides detailing an accident involving a car at a gasoline station, learners are prompted to answer who, what, when, where, and why questions. Use...
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When, what, why, who - clauses
In this when, what, why, and who instructional activity, students choose the correct phrases to fill in the blanks to sentences starting with either when, what, why, or who. Students complete 8 problems.
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Story map
In this story map learning exercise, students fill in a story map that contains the elements of conflict in a story. Students answer the questions of who, what, and why.
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Intermediate Forming Questions - Why
In this forming questions worksheet, students form questions by unscrambling the words and starting with the word "why". Students form 8 sentences.
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Worksheet 1: Question Words
While this worksheet is short, it provides a quick review of forming sentences using who, what, where, when and why. This 6 question activity could be used in an elementary class or with ESL students.
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Quiz 2A: Using Question Words
In this question asking worksheet, students use the question words where, when what time or why to make questions that fit with the responses on the page. They write 10 questions.
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Quiz 3A: Using Question Words
In this question asking learning exercise, students write down questions that fit the responses given. They write 10 questions on this page.
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Beginning Forming Questions - "Why"
In this ELL, forming why questions worksheet, students complete 8 short answer questions where they change 8 sentences into questions that ask why.
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Creative Problem Solving: Using the 5 W's (Who, What, Where, When, Why)
Third graders assimilate the use of the 5 W's (Who, What, Where, When, Why) when solving problems that are presented in literature and in real life situations. They use common fairy tales to solve problems that might arise at home or...